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dream, but the bigger question of the dream has been for the afghan to stand still dominates the headlines this monday is going to do so for a while yet the u. s. know is reportedly changing its policy. cobble apple, now only americans and citizens of nato countries will be allowed group plus green card holders is the main line through. there's no further provision at the moment for us comes to work for coalition forces at the moment. anyway, we're tracking early as some of those employed by foreign states did manage to flee, but the big but here's the relative, remain in the country living in there for their lives. we spoke to one translator coming up on condition of complete anonymity because the risks are so high and i believe that americans are responsible for the missions and today's anybody will be
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killed as a result of this will be on the hands of the american government on the way from a big story, i also want to tell you about special we're bringing you a bit later in the program and continuing a series of reports on trans identifying men being placed in female prisons worldwide. and sometimes the dire consequences for other inmates when that happens . this time we're hearing from an activist to raise the alarm about hiring incidence a sexual assault in women's prison in canada. ah, so good day for most go this 23rd of august just after one in the afternoon, hannah kevin, over here with all we're talking about today in 1st as african center, 2nd week. now the total control over the tele, washington is reportedly changed its policy on who it's going to allow into the pac
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cobble airport. from monday today, only american citizens in green card holders and people from nato come trees will be allowed through the airport gates. a no further space to you might be interested to hear has been as yet anyway, allocated for those who worked with foreign troops there, there in big dangers. we reported just this monday morning to and something else coming in on the news was the german military saying there was a fire fight that broke out a couple airport between afghan security forces and unknown perpetrators. one officer apparently killed the 3 others injured course. the pulled remaining, the only way out of the country. transport has been closed all day sunday. liked to stay that way too. for the next 24 hours. as people try the vacuum, the thousands already inside. for now, at least 20 have been killed in crushes and some peach trying to get in to thousands morals awaiting outside at the pool perimeter. in the hope of getting out
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of the country. a local journalist gave us this report of the latest situation on the ground. ah, only foreign military flights are updated from inside of cobbler international airport for foreign diplomats. and i've gone see guys who work for international troops and for either enjoy for enjoy us. i've got information now because we have been shut down for 48 hours to create people that they are already the size of the airport. now we are, and one of the rushes gate of college or national airport. you can see that it still 100 people are waiting outside of the gate and hope to get a chance to go inside of the airport. ah,
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this audio is my work for 3 years for foreign troops. all my documents are approved for the day. i'm coming here to be told by orange valid, only us possible get to hear america is the problem. they create these challenges, the cheating we get, people playing a game with the people. we don't problems if you came back to normal life, most of the shops are open. we can more traffic more via it goes in the industry. but now i'm going to ask that question summer for people who opened the top the, the template shop has been over for 2 or 3 days. the good thing about the talbot running things here is that there are no explosions or fighting, but the best thing is there are no jobs or work at all. all departments have failed and people are tense. the all
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30 corporate 50, the capital of i've got some cuts out by the taliban. it has been several days that the government departments are shut down. are fluid. people are coming every day behind each department of the government, but they don't get permission from telephone to get inside of the government department dolock. so when it comes to running the country, there is presently a power vacuum. when our leaders came to couple, we have leaders, we have a president administered, all of our cabinets has been appointed. when only to take that position, they will tell everyone to return to work. she started caught on the door. lots of people are hiding in their homes. afraid to venture out, what is your message to them? people today or tomorrow we may ask them to return to work. we have announced the national amnesty for everyone. we are not cannibals here to eat. people say, ask our brothers, we will not tolerate afghans being we have even us,
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the traffic please. not this the about dr. is a now legit her dean to never, ever disturb. can people, you know, they behave very commonly with the people. and as this with reports growing of reprisals by the taliban, anyone the word for had a connection to may be foreign forces could be in danger. many have gone out, but that doesn't help cold comfort for the family and friends left behind. we spoke to one of the many interpreters who worked for the coalition forces during the 20th campaign. he asked to keep his name and location secret for obvious reasons. but the moment my, my family is not residing in our own private home. they're living in somebody else's home, they're fitting for the live a day. they cannot sleep, they're going to suppress depression because of this whole thing. and, and how long does this continue to hold on to the height? i'm scared for them. i'm scared for my, my, my parents, the entire country is under the siege of the taliban. now that they have the,
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those databases and those information are pretty much to have everything about us. i believe that americans are responsible for this negligence. and today's anybody who will be killed or the result of this, their blood will be on behalf of the american government. or if i knew that someday the americans will hand over this country back to the same terrorist that we started fighting in 2001. i would not have joined the ranks. i would have not worked with the americans or british forces. we did not knew that some to be there will be a betrayal from the americans and the natural forces of been contacted by many british citizens who are stuck enough to stop. one of the situation with the british citizen with his children stood in front of the base for more than 3 days after being beaten by the taliban. a number of times and his children got tired, exhausted, and sick. finally, after the last time that he was beaten by the telephone,
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he left the airport and now is heading back to the village. and he called me and he was crying and saying that it's better to be killed by the taliban than being here . he related to the way in front of the port in front of my kids. the wife is so many element see a mean time of course the clock is ticking is the scale and complexity a getting thousands of people out of i've got to stand becomes clear, the taliban today. warning and this is crucial. the us and other foreign powers of consequences if a complete withdrawal of their troops is not carried out by the 31st of august deadline. coming then the president by just sunday yesterday saying they may have to stay pass then britton's prime minister boris johnson. also reportedly using a g 7 emergency summit tuesday to us washington to keep his forces be on the 31st to allow that q ation and lives to continue in other countries saying there's no way they're going to get all the nationals out in time. so what's that going to
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lead to? well, the resistance move and we heard about just snow is headed by masoud who says that if the taliban refuse talks, then civil war is inevitable. he also wrote and all paid in the washington post in which he called on the us to supply our to his militia. if conflict does come, they are going to be facing the taliban. now armed with advanced western weaponry, including crops and armored vehicles, all the cause left behind by coalition military forces or seas from the gun army. and then there's this to think about the fate of africa and women under the new taliban rule remaining, really unclear still. it's a major concern that's being raised worldwide. hundreds took to the streets and their cities across europe to show this solidarity with afghan women protests is demanded, action from the governments, including accepting more refugees. many express fears. the taliban are going to impose strict laws prohibiting women from certain aspects of public life and
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education rushes rudolph canoes, agency speaking to human rights activists, santa, just about this and she's got her own view on who she thinks is responsible for the current situation in my opinion america is the main country who, who is responsible right now, because what they should be doing, they're not doing what they are doing is against humanity. terrorists, specifically poly bonds. they are mostly against of him and they are more against those women who raise their ways, who are not to come fighting that themselves under the 4 in, inside the 4 walls of the home. so that's the reason the target. that's the reason that is because they were against them. they were against those barbarians policies of them. they were against their force in imposing those terrorist on their country . that's the reason that against them and his bonds pledge to respect women's rights, but only inside the boundaries of sherry a law. the militants also encouraged women to return to work and have allowed girls
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to return to school. but of center jazz saying that such statements in her view by the taliban, me a words in reality, women are being severely targeted. now move to file movement members, walk members who are income level mon ending good high dad in hiding it because the there was when they did protests against the human rights violation. most of the terrorist, even according to the united nations, searching for them and my members, they contacted me and told me that a people, i can't see people hatteras, they're searching a door to door home to home searching and they have lists of those them. and they have list of go right, defenders working against their policies and they're searching for them and they are trying to, i know they will do for the food. i know they will be will be facing prosecution as
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well. if they got them be contacting the family member, they call them and they are asking them to let them know they read about. so they are in constant move constant around from the service right now. some of them are hiding in different parts of the country. you know what is done, but they really need to be moved from the anger of the destruction has kind of stand as reached america to rallies pouring under the streets to protest against the taliban. seizing power of the u. s. coalitions, rapid withdraw. protest breaking out on all sides east the west from l. a. washington, dc with demonstrators chomping free afghan, the sun and buys new traders. they also demand that the white house helps struggling afghan population as politicians across made. so countries lane the u. s . and by, in particular, for the last of us got to stand next tunnel. coursera correspond,
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that looks more closely at the growing anger. 20 years of occupation. more than 2 trillion dollars spend hundreds of thousands dead. it's a half the price tag only to get a humidity heading defeat and botched evacuation. in return, naturally the president had some explaining to do to the american people. majority of americans and forgive me, i'm just the messenger no longer consider you to be competent, focused, or effective in the job. i haven't seen the only reason we're against this is a place from which ben loudon attacked the united states of america. had this been in another middle eastern country where he could have beasley have moved from we would have never gone to gas. biden's proverbial house of cards already looks as if it's coming crashing down the atlantic council called washington deer caught in headlights. the administration's job approval rating fell below that of disapproval for the 1st time ever. and the nations allies, well,
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they are not happy is usually catastrophe. good people. so there were some barriers incredibility on for the developing of international relations, $99.00 sharp. this is evident. it is clear that this commitment by the international community has not been successful. this is the biggest debug that nader has seen since it's foundation. and it is an e book of change that we're facing out to see that commander in chief call into question. the courage of men, i forthwith to claim that they ran shameful in those who have never fought for the colors they fly, should be careful about chris lighting. those who have the united states of america bear the main responsibility for the current situation because of their decisions leave of garrison in parts over with hasty, they have the main responsibility. to make matters worse, it looks like the man donald trump famously branded sleepy joe might have been
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snoozing while all this was going on. i have seen no question of our credibility from our allies around the world. i've spoken with our nato allies spoken with nato allies, the secretary of state, or national security via he's been in contact with his counterparts throughout the world in our allies, as has the general or excuse me, i keep calling him in general, but my secretary defense the fact of the matter is i have not seen the matter of fact, the exact opposite. i've got. this is about america leading the world and all our allies have agreed with that. the seemingly out to lunch attitude and utter fiasco that took place under the current administration has drawn criticism from not just biden's rivals, but from fellow party members as well. i'm disappointed that the button administration clearly did not accurately assess the implications of a rapid us withdrawal. the images we saw coming out of of going to start show a tremendous humanitarian crisis. this is going to hurt us. no question about it. i
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think of janice town, his last, every terrorist around the world is cheering. they have watched the taliban defeat america. in effect, president buttons, poor judgment produced the worst possible outcome in afghanistan in only a matter of weeks. even criticism from the media was generally bipartisan secretary blank, and how did president bite and get this so wrong? how could officials have missed fish? how did it happen? how do we get here? does president abide not bear the blame for this disastrous exit from afghanistan? another 3 years of fighting and we're going to be lucky if we have a single ally left. america is back. that was biden's famous promise. but after a colossal failure in america's longest war, ever, many are starting to wonder if he meant america's turning its back on everyone's trust. calling brain is going to be here in about 45 minutes, give you so much more, almost having us kind of sound. but while i'm able to tell you about what's coming
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me. what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy foundation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. development only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, a very critical time. time to sit down and talk me ah, i get his art international live from oscar with me, kevin. i know. go back to what we're talking about in the break. the story that we feel is not getting enough. exposure in the mainstream media heads were across in
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debt. and the latest of a series of reports were looking at the problem of transgender convicts, abusing female inmates imprisons around the globe. a growing number of women say their lives has been turned into a living hell by male prisoners exploiting the system. one of the most notorious cases in canada, women found themselves in danger of predatory male offend, who identified as a woman was sent to their prison. the was in on him have inspecting the gene in the bathroom, making out with someone else and wanting to re son with me. 3 women needed the morning after someone also had to take the bill, which she used under the assumption that it provides protection from 8th and habitat. his be
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call me the one to one, telling me how beautiful he was. and he was trying to get his name. it was super weird. all the girls were uncomfortable. shalon and the house with him and everything. he tried to tell me he was in love with me. it was weird. he asked me to read for him and this girl and started making out with her and feeling her out. well, i was there he brecht told many girls his last week there. and he also bragged about taking the girls virginity in the library to get details as well as the error when, when they're worth your of us there, it was in the living room do you encounter? i couldn't eat after the braces are inside women jails rating. our women men are using this loophole to
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access already vulnerable. women who have no voice or platform to speak from our government, setting out women to be sexually assaulted by these may read some shock and stories that were requested. comment from canada is a correctional service about the allegations as when they get back to us. we'll let you know what they had to say. i'm gonna leave you though without correspondence. ask taylor and another river in depth reports about this story. this time she speaks to activists had the mason, who shed light on the story of the canadian convict as a shit, her own experience of abuse by trans genders in prison. oh, in fact, i want to get a sense of your time inside. and specifically, how trans inmates affected your experience? i was incarcerated with trans individuals in provincial, that was the 1st time i came across it. and then again,
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when i went to federal and that was when they actually put them on compound with us, instead of segregating them away from us. and they didn't have to have surgery. so that happened in 2017. and what was your reaction when you lot was trans inmates living in the compound with you? well, i was actually really freak doe in provincial because they brought me over to the indirect supervision range. and there is a sex offender there that was bully intact. and he was there hiding out because of his crimes. that's what the guards told me anyways, that he was trying to peek into my style when they're searching me. so that was my very 1st experience of that. but when i got to the federal and i was told that there are men on compound with us, i was blown away. i didn't believe it. i couldn't believe that they were putting males in women's presence. i was actually harassed by one of them when i was inside,
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used to get me to try to walk back and forth in front of them so that they could check out my but lots of other comments as well. and then i was also in the halfway has with a male who was fully intact and it was like walking on egg shells. are you worried that there are people who are going to use the system in order to end up in a female prison? and then come out and decide that he's a man again. well, yeah, there's nothing to prevent them. if they claim transgender identity, you can't say that they're not transgender because you're discriminating against their identity or their expression, and even the one, but do get denied training for their utilizing the grievance system, which is a complaint system or a correctional service, canada, when their complaints not resolve their bringing it to the human rights tribunal. did you ever inform the gods about how uncomfortable you felt about incident you
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described of sexual assault and it so how did they react? so. a as women, we do not utilize the avenues that are set up. so the grievance system and the human rights tribunal. we're just not, we're not taught about it. we don't understand how the system works. and for the most part, women are there. they're dealing with so much trauma leg, a lot of them are like prostitution, drug addiction, and abuse their entire lives. they just accept it as another thing that's happened to them as reality of being female. so there are complaints and there are grievances, but not enough. women are speaking out because they're scared. did any of your fellow female prisoners have similar experiences to you? yes. some of my friends were like, pushed up against the wall in the laundry room and a hard time shut down the road. they've had their breasts or their touch,
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sexual comments. a few of them have been sexually assaulted, so to speak to a lot of women that have been incarcerated. and the stories are very similar, same with physical altercation. they've never been punched in the face so hard. they're starting to carry weapons around, which is not a normal thing for women that are incarcerated in canada. they're putting soup cans and socks because they know that they're fighting males and not women. and there's the really, really big power difference between them. candidates, prison system allows men to choose to solve a sentence and a female prison. if they say they identify as women, they told me to undergo any thought true or human therapy. that was enough fuel far to say this is in the name of the quality and to ensure the safety of transgendered, the law change was pushed for by prime minister justin trudeau. himself. will you
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do your best to ensure that trans women are put in prison or prison, more appropriate to their gender identity? yes, i will ensure that i consider myself to be a fairly strong advocate for. for l g b t q 2 issues and fairly aware of all the different pressures and this wasn't one that i had ever thought of. so thank you. have a mason whom we just heard from, says the government has to rethink its approach to the whole issue. nobody wants to speak about it, they don't want to report on it. we're being told that we're lying, that it's not happening that have to use that returns back. there's literally no discussion about it. there is no discussion before any of the policies that were implemented. and i feel like there are solution to this. they have the room in men's institutions that have wings and dorms, and they can make l g b, t q wings,
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better tailored to their unique needs over the united states. similar concerns have been raised. for example, by the case of to no one wrote a transgender, a woman in annoy who was transferred from a men's prison to a women's facility that was after she alleged male inmates had sexually harassed her. but in her new prison, monro herself was accused of raping a female inmate at the thought of the california past its own controversial law. now it allows trans inmates to be transferred to facilities that line with that gender identity. the law was adopted in january and by may, over 260 transfer requests had been made, and that left some female convict, very worried. i will not be victim anymore. i haven't do the sexual abuse as young as 4 to 8 and with the rape as well as numerous main staff correctional officers
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being an appropriate ever since. how the foreigners as be one for 2 has passed. i have been living in constant fear. i can't mentally function without fear. if the men come here, please help us. i'm scared just because they feel like a woman doesn't mean their penis doesn't work. we discuss california law with alexa horon, a co founder of partners for ethical and founder of the agenda mapping project. she says the well being of women prisoners is simply of no interest to legislators. senate bill 132 is, is, is sentencing women who have committed whatever crime to the punishment of sexual violence at the hands of meals. and i think that in terms of the pyramids of nice, gavin newsome and scott winner and every other enabler who was the largest to
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happen, use the feelings of and the physical safety of incarcerated women at the bottom of that tear amid of needs. when we of course understand it has to be a top ortiz keeping a close eye on similar developments in the us and elsewhere in the world. and we'll have more features on the issues raised to come me. oh, join me every thursday on the alex summon show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport. business. i'm show business. i'll see you then me when i would show the wrong one, i'll just don't need you to fill out this thing
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