in the, in the top stories of the week cath continues are covered airport after the taliban sweeps to power and i've dentist and glass of protected route to leave. the military has reported to be closing for the next 2 days to evacuate, goes already inside. meanwhile, many others are desperate to use it to escape remain outside and despite the devastating advance of the taliban and public resistance to the islamist remains among those that continue to protest are many african women all in fear of their future. and the chaotic pull out by the western coalition also leaves behind huge amounts of ammunition for the insurgents, including advanced weaponry from aircraft to armored vehicles ah,

or broadcast. we will have direct from our studios in moscow. this is art international. i'm john thomas. glad to have with us as we recap. our week's topic stories. we start with a developing story. 5 people have been injured in an explosion and fire off and on an offshore oil platform in the gulf of mexico. the owner pen x has confirmed that the blaze is under control. the platform is part of mexico's largest oil field, producing around 640000 barrels of oil per day. now in early, july and underwater fire occurred on another pemex platform in the gulf. due to a gas leak, it took more than 5 hours to fully extinguish that blaze. no injuries were reported and production from the project was not effected. what you're looking at right now is the video for the current incident. here is video of the incident that took

place back earlier this year. now, switching gears now. the tele bond's rapid power grab it through afghanistan has dominated the headlines this week. however, one region remains outside the group's control, and the battle for it is looming. reports are coming in that the taliban is now preparing to attack the strategic passenger valley and to find afghans have fled to the region, an outpost of resistance to the taliban since $990.00 is. it's just over 100 kilometers north of cobble and is surrounded by steep mountains that form a solid natural barrier. meanwhile, in cobble at least 7 civilians were killed on sunday at the cities airport. as huge crowds continued to gather in a desperate bid to flee. this is, according to the defense minister the airport has seen at been the scene of stampede crowd searches and widespread panic since

the milton group announced it is taking over the local media, however, are now reporting that it will be shut for 48 hours to evacuate those inside of thousands of others remain desperate to flee with all national border crossings. now run by the insurgents. heavily guarded airport remains the only way out presidential by and said in his speech to the nation that although 33000 people have already been evacuated from afghanistan, u. s. is still working hard to get americans and african allies out. he added that the evacuation had been painful and a lot could still go wrong. so maybe clear. the evacuation of thousands of people from campbell is going to be hard and painful. no matter when it started when we began. i think when this is over, the american people have a clear understanding of what i did, why we did it. and but look at the job. my job is to make judgements. my job is to

make judgements. no one else can or will make. i made them, i'm convinced i'm absolutely correct. and this is not the 1st time buyer has defended his decision to withdraw troops from the country originally scheduled to be over august 31st. the president has now admitted that deadline may have to be extended to complete the evacuation or figures john of breaks down 7 days of disarray at afghans last exit point. the past few days have been an ultimate exercise in white washing for the white house the barrel in collapse. so gan is 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 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 couple. airports.

contrary to jo biden's claims, we have no indication that they haven't been able to get income all through the airport. we've made an agreement with the, with the tale bond as far they've allowed them to go through and they're interested in and go through. so we know of no circumstance where american citizens are carrying an american passport for 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 flag. the german authorities scorched for evacuating beer before local staffers, who risked 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 americo had to openly admit that the african nation building experiment was

a mistake. i just didn't succeed. and aren't accomplished as we had planned, the realization on the middle. one of them is terrifying for the millions of african smith who supported the more free society and who with the support of when they've gone strong for democracy and women's rights and made important progress. prisons, foreign secretary use edge to step down. as the media alleged, he did not help. going interpreters for the u. k. army escaped the country before the taliban takeover and possible revenge attacks. and all of this is peppered 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, 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 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. so as we have heard, many people have not been able to get out of slide out of cobble. we spoke with a german national who is currently stuck in the country with his african fiance. and i just not, 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 hoped 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 are situation. mike, you're worse if they find out that my fiance is engaged or got married abroad once we arrived safely in germany, we'll of course,

have no more reason to fear for our lives. we live in a free and democratic country. that's where i want to return to. that's where i belong. i'm calling on the government and the german foreign ministry to let us finish all the paperwork in germany. we have the originals of all of our documents in our hands. let us finally leave this caliphate give me and my fiance permission to enter germany. and while confusion reigns at the airport in the capital of self daily life has all but ground to a halt. local journalist took us on a tour of cobbled also several days that the call will see the capital of a gun to 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 restaurant, the supermarket did all cruise and if you see this region here to complete the acquired 3, if you compare it with the year before we do a month before, before it's all about capture the city for the very rock city or the area is in

fact, a very rough area of call, but no, it's very, it's looking very why we will our majority of the time it came out in the press kind of frog assured the people and cobbled that they are protected by the ton of w 7, which i've also said that the topic about leadership, i have all the to the fighters that they don't have permission to enter to any houses or to i need to search. i know how busy they are not allowed to enter. a new house is our inquiry and the government people know i'm here in a checkpoint of a ton of money and public safety. i bricks off with the command of the check by the how they can shorter security people and what they are saying. what do people call up? my name is above the rock mancha child. find the merger hidden a lot in the camera move and it has been 18 or 20 years that we've been in the mountains now with capital capital city. i hope you are not set and we have not

great the problem for the capital people. now i see the shops and markets are closed. what's the 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 the shop. there is no problem for them. the fight is finished and again a staff fighting has finished and the gun this done, there is no g animal before this is gone. now we should come together and save our country. this is one of the couple of national airport get. lots of people are just got here to get charles to get inside of the airport. the security forces that they don't give permission to. i only want to get inside of the airport. now i'm going to interview with one of the guys who is with waiting for long time. it is good, but did he couldn't find the chance to get inside of the airport? 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 caught on the telephone take over has revived major concerns about the inflow of migrants into europe with you. officials openly fearing a repeat of the 2015 crisis when more than a 1000000 flooded into the block. auster is leader has today repeated his firm opposition to taking asylum seekers. this occurred to despite the chief ursula vander lan, just the day before stating its europe's moral duty to help is to the absolute est, clearly opposed to us now voluntarily taking in more people. and that will not happen during my chance and 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 conviction . we must now offer them safe ways to leave the country and be accepted. and as you

mentioned, like this week hungry said that it won't make you citizens pay for what it called. florida american decisions. greece's migration minister in the country won't, again, become european refugee gateway. and a french president, a manual micron called on you members to coordinate a response against irregular migratory flows. now even germany, you state that took most migrants in the 2015 mass in fox ones, have got a sans neighbors must take asylum seekers and that the whole block agrees with that policy. however neighboring turkmenistan is becca stand have taken practically no african refugees. just 14 and 13 migrants respectively. austria is former foreign minister told my colleague andrew farmer earlier that only a controlled migration policy can work. certain countries have announced that they will, from a freighted like that peak and 2 groups of african political refugees,

frowns, announced they would like to take our to john or the some other say they would like to take medical talk to us that are in the area and so they would like to pick and choose. now this is what actually me and my, and ego asylum being 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 reduce the all african, the backup 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 i stated, including means of 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 a maximum 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 type degree of compet knowing a little bit, 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 the human nature and of history and all that i would say i've got his son

is an emblematic symbol of of what is still to come in terms of tremendous crisis of whatever the wife has claimed to stand for letting me put in, has dismissed a plan by western states to put african refugees in central asia. according to the proposal they would have their u. s. or uses process there before traveling to a 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. busy vladimir putin was sticking 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 visit to these countries to our neighbors, but they don't want to take them with the visas to their own countries. is 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 of its members states are cars. exxon could kurdistan and said you could 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 stand because it

shares a common border with that ghana 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 came to, when we don't, once militants disguise those refugees appearing in our country as we are witnessing now. and again, this, then, these horrors were on our territory not so long ago. no one wants to 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. in the face of the overwhelming islam as

defensive afghans have rallied across the country to show resistance to the new regime. in cobbled crowds that marched through the streets, denouncing the countries take over into the anti taliban slogans and carry the african national flag, burgeoning symbol of a defiance. this on verified video purports to show a taliban fighters seizing national flags from men in the street. and then, flapping him in the face, women also took part in the protests. it is feared that they are among the most threatened in today's talib, uncontrolled f gamma stand. since the take over st advertisement in couple showing female faces have been painted over beauty salon have also closed their doors, fearing reprisals, locals say women have packed of practically disappeared from the streets with only a very small number. daring to come out of that, despite the tele bonds promises to respect women's rights, it seemed to afghans don't have much confidence. 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 freeze your flag. they told us, go and sit at home. your women, be ashamed. was the one who fools 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. earlier, my colleague where i see she spoke to the mayor of couple about the 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. stand at the moment the taliban saying that i 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 bottom 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 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. the 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 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 follow, but will also have to come to grips with reality that up on the sun is not the same song 20 years ago. so there is a given take that has to take place anchor over the destruction in afghanistan has reached america as well, with rallies pouring down to the streets to protest against the taliban soothing power. after the u. s. coalitions rapid withdraw. protests broke out on both the east and west coast from l. a. to washington dc with demonstrators changing free afghanistan and biden, you betrayed us. they also demanded the white house help, 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 terror. why? why are we sitting down on the same table and making agreements with me at home? there was gonna be a job that i was gonna come to you guys because they're on that and i'm going to meet the woman's, you know, be out of the market the, they just need a hot play late was no mention gonna 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 get you out there or not there. those people are dying, one by one. the telephone now has a huge arsenal of high tech weapons worth billions of dollars originally gifted by the pentagon to the african army. us national security adviser answered questions on the arms 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 by. 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 footage from which shows taliban fighters printing around cobble with american made rifles and military vehicles. they have acquired washington's still trying to estimate

just how much weaponry and tech has fallen into insurgent hands. and to add insult to injury the taliban has also created a photo opportunity. one of its special command units decked out in u. s. military gear, recreated and conduct world war 2 photo of troops trying to raise the american flag on gina. but this time telephone flag was in its place. speaking to r t going underground u. s. comedian and political commentator jimmy door gave us his thoughts on 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 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 gavin ended up until we invented the taliban. if you took, so there's 600000 according to statistics or 600000 homeless people in america. a 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. i and other you said tonight to infants are among the 22 people confirm dead after vere rainfall triggered fierce flooding in the united states state of tennessee. more than 40 people are also missing after the torrent ripped through cars and homes. heavy rain cut mobile phone services and the state national guard has been deployed help, stranded resident, looks about the same time. why at please have filed tear gas and water cannons and

rubber bullets and protesters demanding for a 3rd day. the resignation of the country's prime minister over his handling of the pandemic. a demonstrator was left in a coma after a bullet lodged in his head in the classes as writers hurled fireworks and projectiles. protectors gathered at the national police headquarters as well as blocking major motor ways to bangkok and volunteers are planting 10000 cedar seedlings in a bid to restore a siberian forest destroyed by the summer's record wildfires. hundreds of huge blazes have burned across an area twice the size of luxembourg in the region of the crew to environmental workers and students have come together on the project as local communities try to rebuild their lives. that's a look at your weekly another. look in about 30 minutes, stay with our to international the

who's in the in the, at the might of the 2020 corona virus pandemic, mass media really covered stories from africa. the world was more interested in kind of it, and africa had more less infected people in europe. so one story gone people's attention. newspapers reported that kenya was having an elephant baby, boomers. journalist linked the unprecedented surge and the elephant birth rate to tourists being restricted from the pog. they said it was the most positive side of a low down, but kind of a.