[000:00:00;00] the ah, in the top stories of the week can continue the couple airport after the telephone switch to power. and i've got the fan last protected route to flee. the militant is reported to be closing for the next 2 days to evacuate those already inside. meanwhile, many others desperate to use it to escape remain outside despite the devastating advance of taliban public resistance to the limits remains among those that continue to protest are many after women, all in fear of their future. and the chaos to pull out by the western coalition also leaves behind huge amounts of ammunition for the insurgents, including advanced weaponry from aircraft to armor,

the vehicle. ah, but i can't see my direct from a studio market. this is our to international. i'm john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us. now the taliban is rapid power grabbed through afghanistan has dominated the headlines this week. however, one region remains outside to groups control and the ballot for it is looming. reports are coming in that the taliban is now preparing to attack the strategic plan. year valley now defined afghans have fled to the region, an outpost of resistance to the taliban. since the 1990 s. 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 together in a desperate bid to flee. this is,

according to the defense minister the, the airport had been the scene of stan peed, crowd surges and widespread panics in milton group announced its take over. social media however, is now reporting. it will be shut for 48 hours to evacuate those inside of thousands of others from maine, desperate to flee with all national border crossings. now run by the insurgence. the heavily guarded airport remains the only way out. presidential biden said in his speech to the nation that although the 33000 people have already been evacuated from afghanistan, the u. s. is still working hard to get americans and african allies out. yeah. did 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. it is not the 1st time biden has defended his decision to withdraw troops from the country originally scheduled to be over august 30. first. the president has now admitted the deadline may have to be extended to complete that evacuation or to donald comments. now, on the 7 days of disarray of afghanistan's last exit point, the past few days have been an ultimate exercise in white washing for the white house. the beverly collapse of gaz 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

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 access 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 on the plains. 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 it and they're interested in 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 even by the taliban. this is unacceptable and we made it clear to their designated taliban leader. but joe biden is far from the only person taking the flag. the gentleman authorities scorched for evacuating beer 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 reporter himself, 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, the realization on the middle. one of them is terrifying for the millions of afghans who supported the more free society and who with the support of when they've gone strong for democracy, cation and women's rights, and made important progress. prisons, foreign secretary use 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 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 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 official. as we heard many people have not been able to get on flight leaving campbell. 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 are situation like you're 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 to enter germany. and while confusion reigns at the airport in the capitol itself, 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 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 supermarket did all cruise and if you see this region here, it's a completely acquired 3. if you compare it with the year before we do a month before before it's all a month, 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 like why we will our majority person of the stomach, him out in the press kind of frog i assure people and causes that they are protected by the ton of on w w. i'd also say that the topic about leadership, i have all the to the fighters that they don't have permission to enter any houses or to i need to search the houses. i didn't build they, they are not allowed to enter. the house is our inquiry, and the government people know i'm a year and a checkpoint of a ton of money and public safety. i bricks off with the command of the check fine. that's how they can show 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 in again you. it has been 1820 years that we've been in the mountain just now with capital capital city. i hope you are not set and we have not great 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 again, fighting has finished and the gun this done, there is no g. had any malays before going to her now we should come together and save our country. this is one of the cobble national airport gates. lots of people are just got here to get charles to get inside of the airport. but if the security forces that they don't give permission to anyone 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 that he couldn't find the chance to get inside of the airport. so how long have you been behind this gate? because it's 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 inside. getting caught on the telephone take over, has revive. the major concerns about the inflow of migrants into europe with officials openly fearing a repeat of the 2015 crisis. when more than a 1000000 flooded into the block, austria's leader has today repeated his firm opposition of taking asylum seekers. this occurred despite you chief of a vulgar land adjust the day before stating its europe's moral duty to help. as 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 offer it 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. and as i mentioned this week hungry said that it won't make it the citizens pay for what it called flawed american decisions. greece is migration minister and the country won't, again become a europe refugee gateway and french president to many micron called on you members to coordinate a response against irregular migratory flows. even germany, the you state that took most migrants in the 2015 mass and fox warrens, afghanistan's neighbors must take asylum seekers and that the whole block agrees with that policy, however neighboring turkmenistan and his pakistan have taken practically no african refugees. just 14 and 13 migrants respectively. austria's former foreign minister told my colleague, gander from earlier that only

a controlled migration policy can work. certain countries have announced that they will, if i made freighted like that peak. and 2 groups of political refugees frowns announced they would like to take our to john, are they some other say they would like to take medical socks that are in the area . and so they would like to pick and choose. now this is what actually alina, my and me go, 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 reduce the whole african, the backup only to this migration issue it's, it's a much, much wider when it comes to security question when it comes to political

responsibility. and as, as many have stated to me to the means of a tax, it is the complete lot 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 the, even much more noisy away and into current migration crisis. we have seen a tremendous decree of in competition. 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 rough, high of criticism it's, it's,

it's an absence of fans of realism. it's an absence of being able to think in the category of how your politics of human nature and of history and all that. i would say i've got this done is an emblematic symbol of, of what is still to come in terms of tremendous crisis of whatever the, what has claim to stand for. let 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 e research process there before traveling to 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 thinking, 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. it's quite a humiliating approach to the issue. now putting statement come amid the preparations for tomorrow's collective security treaty organization meeting, and that's,

that's an organization in which 3 of its members states are cars like sun could curtis then 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 just 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 military themselves. i mean, this is serious problem that the russian president has said has a direct relationship to russian 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. in the face of the overwhelming islamist offensive afghans have rallied across the country to show resistance to the new regime. in cobbled crowds, marched through the streets denouncing the country's take over. they chanted anti taliban slogans and carried the african national flag. a burgeoning symbol of defiance. this on verified video purports to show a telephone fighter seizing national flags from a man in the street and then slapping him in the face. women also took part in the protests. it is fear that they are among the most threatened in today's taliban controlled afghanistan. since the take over st advertisements in cobble showing female faces have been painted over beauty salons have also closed their doors, fearing reprisals. local say, women have practically disappeared from the streets with only

a very small number. daring to come out. all that, despite the telephone to promises to respect women's rights. now the seemed, 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 cannot 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. earlier my colleague spoke to the mayor of cobble 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 for 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 bought a 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 off upon us from the 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 of security forces to not to fight because they didn't want to

fight or something unknown. the ever thing. what defines 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 up on the sun is not the same up on a song 20 years ago. so there is a given take that has to take place. anger over the destruction in afghanistan has reached america as well, with rallies pouring under the streets to protest against the taliban seizing power . after the u. s. coalitions rapid withdraw protests. it broke out on both the east and west coasts. from l. aid to washington, dc with demonstrators chanting free, afghanistan and biden,

you betrayed us so demanded. the white house help the struggling i can 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. us never says that we've never deal with terrorist why. why are we sitting down on the same table and making agreements with me? oh, there was not gonna be a job that i'm going to come to you guys because there are the enemy are going to enemy a woman, you know, be on the market. i think they just need a hot pretty late was know, we're gonna come knocking your door,

betrays later or 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, someone to come get you out. they are not there. those people are dying. one by one. telephone now has a huge arsenal of high tech weapons with 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 taller 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 the week shows taliban fighters printing run cobble with american made rifles and military vehicles that they've acquired. washington, 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 commander units decked out in u. s. military gear, recreated in iconic world war 2 photo of troops raising the american flag on it. you would g but, but this time the telephone flag was in its place. speaking to r t is going underground u. s. committee and political commentator jimmy door gave us his thoughts on his country's handling of the crisis. us 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, 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 ganeth ended up until we invented the taliban. if you took, so there's 600000 according to statistics, there's 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, 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. i in other news tonight, 5 people have been injured in an explosion and fire on an offshore oil platform in the gulf of mexico. the owner pemex says blaise is under control, workers were evacuated and the injured are being treated for burns pen. max is

investigating the cause of the fire platform as part of mexico's largest oil field, producing around 640000 barrels of oil per day 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 place. no injuries were reported and production from the project was not effected to influence. among the 22 people, confirmed dead after severe rainfall triggered fierce flooding in the us state of tennessee. within 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 to help stranded residents. tire wyatt. police have fired tear gas water, cannons, and rubber bullets at protesters demanding for a 3rd day. the resignation of the country's prime minister over his handling of the pandemic demonstrator was left in

a coma after bullet lodged in his head in the clashes as writers hurled fireworks and projectiles. protesters gathered at the national police headquarters as well as blocking major motor wasted bangkok. volunteers are punting 10000 theatre seedlings in a bid to restore a siberian forests 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 creature. environmental workers and students have come together on the project as local communities tried to rebuild their lives. that's what gets your weekly. i'll be back in 30 minutes with another phone. fresh look, stay with us. this is our international the

who make no borders and the model number please. and you as emerge. we don't have authority. we go to the back seen the whole world needs to take action and be ready, not a job. people just come in crisis and we can do better. we should be better. everyone is contributing each in their own way. but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever. the challenges wait for the response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are together in