the ah, top stories of this week carols continues a couple airport after the telephone sweeps, the power and the dentist and the last protected route to please the militants is reported to be closing. for the next 2 days to evacuate goes already inside. meanwhile, many others desperate to use it to escape remained outside. despite the devastating advance of the taliban public resistance to the limits and militants remained. among those that continued 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 armored vehicles. ah,

broadcasting live direct from a studio market. this is our ginger national. i'm john thomas and the glad to have you with us. right now. the telephones, rapid power grabbed through afghanistan, has dominated the headlines this week. however, one region remains outside the groups control and the battle for it is looming. reports are coming in that the taliban is now preparing to attack the strategic pens your valley. defined afghans have fled to this region and outpost of resistance to the taliban. since the 19 ninety's. it's just over a 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. that's according to the case defense minister the,

the airport has been the scene of stampede, crowd surges and widespread panic. since the milton group announced its take over local media, however, are now reporting that it will be shut for 48 hours to evacuate those inside, while thousands of others remain desperate to flee with all national border crossings. now run by the insurgents. the heavily guarded airport remain the only way out. president joe biden said in his speech to the nation that although 33000 people have already evacuated from afghanistan, the u. s. is still working hard to get americans and africa and 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 jobs and make judgments. my job is to make judgments. no one else can or will make. i made them. i'm convinced them absolutely correct, and it's 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 dead line may have to be extended to complete that evacuation or ego donald comments. now on the 7 days of disarray. and i've got a sense last exit point. the past few days have been an ultimate exercise in white washing for the white house. the beverly collapse of gaston following the us with drool happened as people were being shot, desperate of gunny scaling jets, some even tragically falling of the chassis 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 in trouble through the airport. we've made an agreement with the, with the tale bond as far they've allowed them to go through 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 eaten 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 gentleman authorities scorched for evacuating beer before local staffers, who risked their lives working for the military. and up to that relatives of a do, each of villa correspondent 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 billing experiment was

a mistake. i just didn't succeed, aren't accomplished as we had planned. the realization on the mit is terrifying for the millions of african smith who supported the more free society and who with the support of when they've gone through for democracy and women's rights and made important progress. prisons. foreign secretary is 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 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 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, 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 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 was heard. many people have not been able to get on flights, leaving couple we spoke with a german national who is currently stuck in the country with his african 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 make it worse. if they find out that my fiance is engaged or got married abroad once we arrive safely in germany, will of course have no more reason to fear for our lives. we live in

a free and democratic country. that's where i want to return to. that's where i belong. i'm calling on the government and the german foreign ministry to let us finish all the paperwork in germany. we have the originals of all of our documents in our hands. let us finally leave this caliphate give me and my fiance permission to enter germany. while confusion reigns at the airport in the capitol itself, daily life has all but ground to a halt. a local journalist took us on a tour of cobble also several days that they call, we'll see if he's a capital off of gun to some fall into the college. and it seems that the sales, the city is quite sharp, that we are seeing you here. they're all clues, the bonds, the restaurant, the supermarket, get all crews. and if you see this region here, it's a completely all wired 3. if you compare it with us before we do before, before to call a bond capture, the city, it was a very rough city for the areas,

in fact, very russia area of call. but now it's what it's looking like, why we will our majority, this person does not make a model and a press kind of fraud, assured the people and call them that they are protected by the ton of on w w, which i've also said that it's not about leadership, i have all the to the fighters that don't have permission to enter the house. if i need to search, i know how it is built. they, they are not allowed to enter any houses or inquiry on the government. people know i'm a year and a checkpoint of a ton of money and public digit. 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 did people come up? my name is above the rock mancha chime. i'm the manager 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 of the problem for the

capital people. no, i see the shops and markets are closed. what's your 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 finished and again, this done, there is no g had anymore before this is gone. now we should come together and save our country. this is one of the couple international airport get lots of people are just got here to get charles to get inside of the airport. but it seems that 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 couldn't find the child 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 the telephone take over has revive 2 major concerns about the inflow of migrants into europe with your officials, openly fearing a repeat of the 2015 crisis. when more than a 1000000 flooded into the block, austria is leader, has repeated his firm opposition to taking asylum seekers this occurred despite you . chief ursula vander lan, stating over the weekend that it is europe's moral duty to health is to the absolute sustain, clearly opposed to us now voluntarily taking in more people. and that will not happen during my championship. 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, hungary said that it will not make it citizens pay for what it called flawed american decisions. greece is migration minister in the country won't, again become europe's refugee gateway, and friendship president amend micron called on you members to coordinate a response against irregular migratory flows. even germany, the state that took most migrants in the 2015 mass influx warrens, afghanistan's neighbors must take asylum seekers and that the whole block agrees with that policy. however neighboring turkmenistan and inspectors have taken practically no african refugees. just 14 and 13 migrants respectively. austria, as former foreign minister earlier told my colleague and your farmer that only a controlled migration policy can work. certain countries have announced that they will, from a phrase like that pekin to groups of political refugees.

friends announce they would like to take are john, are they some other say they would like to take medical doctors that are in 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 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've stated the means over a text it's, it's a complete loss of trustworthiness. of credibility a what all of these core?

well, you're 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 currents my question crisis, we have seen a tremendous degree of in comp attorney, and i'm not surprised by this high degree of competence and 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 sense of realism. it's an absence of being able to think into category, how your politics of human nature and of history. and all that i would say i've gotten done is an emblematic symbol of,

of what is still to come in terms of tremendous crisis of whatever the west has claimed to stand for. vladimir putin has dismissed a plan by western states to put down refugees in central asia. this according to the proposal they would have their us or you lisa's 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 spend at our external borders for what you're putting with sticking. speaking up specifically, they're 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 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 putting statements come amid the preparations for tomorrow's collective security treaty organization meeting, and that's, and that's an organization in which 3 it's members states our son could her guest 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 stand because it shares a common border with the dentist. and, 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 said teams to when 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. when those elements are coming from then, 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. and the face of the overwhelming is almost

offensive. afghans have rallied across the country to show resistance to the new regime. in cobbled crowds, marched through the street denouncing the country's take over. they chanted anti taliban slogans and carry 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 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 taliban control. that's going to stand since the take over st advertisements in couple showing female faces have been painted over beauty salon, have also closed their doors, fearing reprisals. local say, women have part practically disappeared from the streets with only a very small number of daring to come out. all that despite the taliban promises to respect women's rights, it seems afghans that 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 no 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. my colleague, roy sushi earlier talk 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 or seems to thumb that the taliban is perhaps putting on a bit of a p. r, stand at the moment, the taliban said that they want women to have the opportunity perhaps to even get a job. it says women can perhaps even get an education. we have educated women, we have women who can provide services. we have women can,

who can be part of the economy, therefore it's only logical for itala bond government our for any government to make sure that we take advantage of that the issue of women has to be dealt with in the context of human rights and islam of course, within that context there are freedoms. we cannot deny that from the women of 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 to satisfaction among racket, rank, and file in the military and 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 thing. 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 is a given take that has to take place. anger over the destruction in afghanistan has reached america as well, with rallies pouring on the streets to protest against the taliban. seizing power after the u. s. coalitions rapid withdraw. protests broke out on both the east and west coasts from l. a. to washington dc with demonstrators chanting free afghan, stan 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 terra why. why are we sitting down on the same table and making agreements with me at home? there was not going to be a job that i was gonna come to you guys because they are the enemy, enemy, the woman who might not 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 telephone now has a huge arsenal of high tech weapons worth billions of dollars. originally gifted by the pentagon to the african army, the 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. 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 footage from the week shows taliban fighters printing around cobble with american made rifles and military vehicles. they have acquired washington is still trying to estimate just how much weaponry and tech has fallen into insurgent han and insult

to injury the telephone 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 you were jima. but this time the taliban flag was in its place. speaking to r t is going underground. u. s. comedian and political commentator jimmy door gave us his thoughts on his country's handling of the crisis. 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 gavin then did up until we invented the taliban if you took. so there's 600000. according to statistics are 600000 homeless people in america. lot of those are women. lot of those are children. now, if you gave them each a $1000.00 stipend a month, a $1000.00 a month, to go get housing. that would cost $7200000000.00 a year. 7.2000000000. you know, we've been spending 2 trillion dollars or the last 20 years, 300000000 dollars a day,

to kill people and get it then. so the united states ever really cared about women, they could spend a $7200000000.00 to 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. 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 pen acts as the blazes under control. workers were evacuated and the injured are being treated for burns pen. max is investigating the cause of the fire platform is 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 plays no injuries were reported, and production from that project was not effective to entrance are among the $22.00 people, confirmed dead after severe rainfall triggered fierce flooding in the u. s. state of tennessee. more than 40 people are also missing after the torn ripped through cars and homes. heavy rain cut mobile phone services and the state national guard has been deployed to help strand resident years re re ty, right. please have fired his gas 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 when left in a coma after a bullet lodged in his head in the classes as writes, writers hurled fireworks and projectiles. protesters gathered at the national police headquarters as well as blocking major motor waste throughout bangkok. and

volunteers are planting 10000 feet or seedlings in a bid to restore 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 your kuta, environmental workers, and students have come together on the project as local communities tried to rebuild their lives. that does it for me for this hour, and that does it for the weekly entirely for this week. but don't worry about 30 minutes time. my colleague kevin own will be here with a full and fresh look at your news. this is our to international. glad to have you with us. oh, i use ah,

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