but i know we come when he just was in order with me the in the top stories of the week here are not chaos that comple airport. the taliban sweeps to power in afghanistan. read the last protected route and see the militants will be closed for the next 2 days to evacuate. ready inside the tires and still desperately trying to use it for escape the country. despite the devastating advance off the taliban, there is some resistance. islamists with african women among those fighting against the regime. they fear for the future. the coyote, polite by the western coalition also leave behind huge amounts from mission picked up by the insurgents, including bonds, weaponry from aircraft and vehicles. ah,

i know that the latest news and look back what's been happening to over the last 7 days. you're watching the weekly here. an art international. the taliban. rapid power grabbed through afghanistan has dominated the headlines this week. however, one region does remain side the groups control and the battle for it is looming with reports coming in that the taliban is now preparing to attack the strategic pan share valley. defined afghans have fled to that region and i post of resistance to the taliban. since the 1919 states, just over a 100 kilometers north of couple and is surrounded by steep mountains that form a solid natural barrier. now, meanwhile, in kabul at least 7 civilians were killed on sunday at the cities airport is huge. crowds gather in a desperate bid to see the country as, according to the case defense minister

the chaos scenes of sam page and crimes have been coming in from there since the militant group tonight, total control of the country. however, citing the u. s. military, local media have reported that the airport will be shut now for 48 hours to evacuate. those, you've already made it inside the national border crossings and i run by the surgeon so the heavily defended people airport does remain the only way to leave the country. on saturday, the pentagon said bit around 17 times and people had been listed this week including 2 and a half size and americans on that same day, the u. s. embassy and cabal issued an alert, rich citizens to avoid the airport unless under specific instructions from washington to go. there you go. down, off breaks down 7 days now. of disarray. afghanistan's last exit point, word of warning. you might find some of the images in his report. 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, 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 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 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 beef 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 hotel, a been leader,

but joe biden is far from the only person taking the flak 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 look of motives before the pull out to date, this is her only comment on the evacuation chaos. we are closely monitoring the situation and i've got this done oh, priorities to continue evacuating us citizens, special immigrant. these us applicants and vulnerable guns out of the country. the german authorities are scorched for evacuating beer before local staffers who risk their lives working for the 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 reporter himself. chancellor angle merkel had to openly admit that the african nation billing experiment was a mistake. i just didn't succeed and aren't accomplished. as we had planned. the

realization on the mit is terrifying for the millions of afghans who supported the more free society and who with the support of when they've gone through 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. 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 to go out and collect up large numbers of people. the us was caught on a harrison,

i think once again, 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, in afghanistan for almost 20 years. consuming, according to some estimates, 2 trillion dollars. this money has not gone to the benefit of the afghan people, obviously. and this whole enterprise has been very bad for the american people as well. many us soldiers have died. the good thing about exposing the delusions of the us empire and the neoconservative to run 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. i say we have heard that many

people have not been able to get out of couple by getting a fly size of the airport there. we spoke with a german national, who's currently stuck in the country with his afghan fiance. and i just, i'm a german citizen. throughout the day i stay in constant contact with the german foreign ministry and the german ambassador to couple. i received an email saying that one can enter germany, only one is a family member of a german. my fiance is such a person, but she's not being recognized in the official status, and she's a citizen of afghanistan. we hope to leave the country as soon as possible on one of the evacuation charter flights. of course we're very worried about what's going on. we haven't gone out since the day before yesterday since the taliban set up checkpoints all around the city. were also worried that they could find out that i'm a foreigner or that in the future our situation might be worse. if they find out that my fiance is engaged or got married abroad once we arrived safely in germany,

will of course have no more reason to fear for our lives. we live in a free and democratic country. that's where i want to return to. that's where i belong. i'm calling on the government and the german foreign ministry to let us finish all the paperwork in germany. we have the originals of all of our documents in our hands. let us finally leave this caliphate. give me my fiance permission to enter germany. now while la confusions as rain at the airport in the city of cabal itself, davy, life fair as all but ground to a halt like journalists took us on a tall also several days that the call will see the capital of a gun from fall into the fall of one, it seems that the sales receipt is quite sharp that you are seeing you here. they're all clues. the bonds, the restaurant, the supermarket did all cruise. and if you see this region here, it's a completely all wired 3. if you compare it with the year before we do a month before, before the telephone capture, the city, it was

a very rock city or the area is in fact a very rough area of call. but now it's very looking very why we will our majority . this person does not make a model in a press kind of frog. i showed the people and cobbled that they are protected by the ton of on w w w. it's also said that this, i'm thinking about leadership. i have all the to the fighters that they don't have permission to enter for any houses or to i need to search. i know how it is. i didn't go they, they are not allowed to enter. the house is our inquiry, and the government people know i'm here in a checkpoint of a ton of money in public. i bricks off with commander of the check fine. that's how they can. i showed the security people and what they are saying, what did people call up? my name is above the rock mancha chime. i'm the merger hidden a lot in the camera move, and it has been 1820 years that we've been in the mountains. now we captured capital city, i hope you are not set,

and we have not great of the problem of the terrible people. now 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 should come and open the shop. there is no problem with the fight and finished and have dentist fighting has finished. and again, this done, there is no g had any money before this is gone. now we should come together and save our country, and this is one of the cobble international airport gates. lots of people are just gather here to get charles to get inside of the airport. the security forces that they don't make anyone forget inside of the airport. now i'm going to interview with one of the guys who is with waiting for long time get what did he couldn't find the chance to get inside of the airport. so how long have you been behind this gate? been around 3 days. there were people that stormed the airport with the 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 him side getting caught on. meanwhile, the taliban takeover has revived. major concerns about the inflow of migrants into europe with the u. officials openly fearing the repeat of the 2015 crisis when the, when more than a 1000000 flooded into the broke off his leader is today repeated his firm opposition to taking asylum seekers. despite the chief ursula on the line just the day before stating it's europe smallwood gt; to help afghans is to the absolute est clearly opposed to us now voluntarily taking in more people. and that will not happen during my chunk of the ship. i'm not of the opinion that we should take in more people quite the opposite. that's legal. i think it is very important that we all for legal ways to those who have to flee afghan is down because of their convictions. we must now offer them safe ways to

leave the country and be accepted in this way. hungry said, though it won't make it citizens pay for what it called, flor american decisions. grace's migration minister says to the country, once again become europe, refugee gateway, and the french president, manuel macros called on the members to coordinate a response against irregular my great re flows. even germany, the state that took most migrants in the 2015 mass in flux wounds that i've kind of stunned neighbors must take asylum seekers and that the whole block agrees with that policy. however neighboring to stand and respect his staff have taken practically no african refugees. just 14 and 13 migrants respectively. or she is former foreign minister told me really a controlled migration policy could work. certain countries have announced that they will, if i made rated like that peak. and 2 groups of political refugees

frowns, announced they would like to take our to john or the some other say they would like to take medical doctors that are in the area. and so they would like to pick and choose. now this is what actually, alina, my and ego asylum seeking mechanism should be involved. but i don't see it happen in this case. i mean, where were people righteous? where can people book the sites and get the family ready for moving? we simply cannot refuse. i've gone back only to this migration issue it's, it's a much, much wider it's doing when it comes to security question when it comes to political responsibility. and as, as many of the means over a text it's, it's a complete loss of trustworthiness, of credibility, of what all these call,

well you know, in terms of human rights respect and sexual. and i think the destruction of an image is which will fall on our hat in even much more noisy, a way. and then to current my question crisis, we have seen a tremendous decree of in computor. and i'm not surprised by the high degree of compet knowing a little bit of some of the organizations from the inside. some of the people who are now in the high of criticism it's, it's, it's an absence of sense of realism. it's an absence of being able to think in the category of your politics, of human nature and of history. and all that i would say

is an emblematic symbol of, of what is still to come in terms of thought tremendous crisis of whatever the west has claimed to stand for. while the russian president vladimir putin has dismissed the plan by western states to put afghan refugees in central asia, according to the proposal, they would have the u. s. o. e. v's is process that before traveling to their final destination. it must be our goal to keep the majority of the people in the region. europe shouldn't wait until people stand at our external borders for vladimir putin was speaking. speaking up specifically, there against several proposals that were given by european leaders to confine afghan refugees to the region until they purportedly received visas from the u. s. or some other western country. but of course, nobody knows exactly how long that's going to take,

or if they're even going to receive visas at all. it's important to remember that throughout the the ladder years of the afghanistan war and now a lot of people in afghanistan who collaborated with nato forces the us led coalition. they were promised visas and never received one and now they're fearing reprisals from the taliban. so let's hear what the russian president had to say about the situation. but even with now, western partners frequently raised the question of accommodating african refugees in central asian countries before they get a u. s. 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 putting statements come amid the preparations for tomorrow's collective security treaty organization meeting that's, that's an organization in which 3 its members states are cars like sun could curtis then and said you can stand. these are all countries that are located in the central asian region where afghanistan is also located. and this is especially

serious for to stay because it shares a common border with afghan, a stand. but one of the bigger problems really is that who's to say that all of the refugees that come into the region are actually going to be refugees, are not militants themselves. i mean, this is a serious problem that the russian president has said, has a direct relationship to russia. national security when you had teams to but we don't, once militants disguise those refugees appearing in our country, the horrors we are witnessing now enough kindness, then these horrors were on our territory not so long ago. no one wants a repeat of that. that's why we don't one those elements coming from them. now of course those horrors on the territory of the russian federation and in central asia that putting was referencing there, of course, had to do with the terrorist attacks that the region and russia have have had, had a problem with throughout the early 2, thousands and even after 2010, and nobody really wants to see of course, a repeat of these terrorist activities. done quarter reporting that will in the

face of the overwhelming islamist offensive afghans have rallied across the country to show resistance to the taliban regime. and cabal crowds march through the streets that the 9th and the countries takeover chanted anti taliban savings, and carried african flags that have become a symbol of defiance. this unverified video, just purport to show a taliban fighters seizing afghan flags from a man in the street. and then slapping him in the face, women also took part in the process. there is fear that they are among the most threatened in today's taliban controlled afghanistan. since to tell you over st. adverts in cabal showing female faces have been painted over. the towns have closed their doors, fearing reprisals, and likely to say that women have practically disappeared from the streets altogether. vainly a very small number, daring to come out all that despite the taliban promises to respect women's rights, it does seem that afghans don't have much competence. in those words,

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 raise your flag. they told us, go and sit at home. your women be ashamed. was the one 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 corey, see, she did talk to the man of couple about the situation on the ground in the city. 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. 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, who can be part of the economy. therefore, it's only logical for itala, buying a government our for any government to make sure that we take advantage of that the issue of women has to be dealt with and the context of human rights. and islam, of course, within that context, there are freedoms. we cannot deny that from the women of punishment. 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 fall upon resentment of how things were managed, the satisfaction among racket rank and file the military 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 follow, but will also have to come to grips with reality that are on the side is not the same for 20 years ago. so there's a given take that has to take place. while anger over the destruction in afghanistan is reached america to with rallied, pouring onto the street said protests against taliban seizing power. after the u. s . coalitions wrapped the patrol. a protest broken on both the east and west coast from allay to washington dc with demonstrates as chanting free, afghanistan and biden in betrayed. they also demanded the white house helps the struggling afghan population. people are being persecuted,

women and children do not do not have a future enough dentist and under the terrorist, the taliban, it's a terrorist organization. there are the same ones that have that we've dealt with in the past. the u. s. never says that we've never deal with terra why. why are we sitting down on the same table and making agreements with me at home? that's going to be a job that i'm going to come to you guys because there are the enemy and the me woman, you know, be out of the market. the, they just need a hot play late was no doubt come knocking your door. the translators are left their left bleeding. taliban are going around killing every single one of them. we're not doing anything about it.

the united states government that promised every single one of these workers that wanted to come get you out there or not there. those people are dying one by one. well, the taliban now has a huge arson of high tech weapons to with billions of dollars originally gifted by the pentagon to the afghan army, the u. s. national and national security advisor has answered questions on all the arms that were left behind. those black hawks were given to the columbine. 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 handed over to us at the airport. well, footage from the weight does show taliban fighters parading around comple with

american made rifles and military vehicle acquisitions. washington, still trying to estimate to just how much weaponry and tech has fallen in the hands of the insurgents. well, to add insult to injury the taliban is also created a photo opportunity. one of its special commander units have time to us care recreated an iconic world war 2 photo of troops raising the american flag. not speaking to us, he's getting underground comedian, political commentator jimmy door gave us his thoughts and his country's handling of the crisis. 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 a lot of people are saying we need to stay in afghanistan to help the women. i say, how about the united states takes about 3 or 4000 troops and invades 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 living wage in the united states give them health care and give them an education. ironically, that's what the government up ganeth ended up until we invented the taliban if you took. so there's 600000, according to statistics, or 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 take care of the homeless people in the united states. give them a 1000 that they won't do it. so yet joe biden, nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, 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 in other news tonight, 17 paper including 2 toddlers, a confirmed dead more than 40 people are missing off to severe flash floods in the u. s. state of tennessee writ through homes and caused heavy rain cause i mobile phone services in the state. national guard has been deployed to help stranded residents. riot police suffice gas,

40 cannon and rubber bullets and protests is demanding for the rest of the resignation of highlands. prime minister over his handling of the pandemic demonstration was left in a coma. the bullet lodged in his head during the clashes rice has held fireworks and projectiles. the protest is gathered at the national police headquarters, as well as blocking major mo, twice 3. the capitals bang coke. volunteers upon thing. 10000 seat a seedlings in a bid to restore siberian forests that were destroyed by this summer's record wildfires, as you can see, hundreds of huge places burned across an area twice the size of luxembourg. and the reason of your cute here i environmental work is and students so have come together on the project as local communities to try to start to rebuild their lives. so that brings you up to date. we're going to be back more stories for you and the headlines at the top of the the

one depend, i make no, certainly no borders under my number t's as emerge. we don't have a therapy, we go to the back scene, the whole world needs to take action and be ready. people judge, you know. 2 crisis we can do better, we should be better. everyone is contributing each of their own way, but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenge is paid for the response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are together in american

love by an armed me with this would have funded mental part of how our political leadership and our country a large understood the bargain. you get a home and then you will 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 no 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 .