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ah, the gun it stands still dominates. the headlines this monday, the united states is reportedly changing its policy. a couple apple. now only americans and citizens of nato countries will be allowed through plus green cardholders. there's no further provision for afghans who work for coalition forces at the moment. earlier. some of those employed by foreign states did manage to flee, but that relative remain in the country against fear for their lives. we spoke to one translator condition of complete anonymity because the risks remain high. i believe that americans are responsible for this negligence. and then today's anybody who will be killed as a result of this will be on the hands of the american government. away from that big story we're covering this for you as well. this monday, off series of reports on trans identifying men being placed in female prisons
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worldwide, the dire consequences to some other inmates. this time we hear from an activist to raise the alarm on how doing incidents of sexual assault in women's prison in canada. ah, good, happy with us. it's monday afternoon at 2 here in moscow. my name is colleen bright . we will use this. our 1st is afghanistan, anticipates the 2nd week of the total control of the taliban. washington has reportedly changed its policy on the who it's going to allow into campbell airport for monday own only american citizens green cardholders and people from nato countries will be allowed through the airport gates. no further space has yet been allocated for those who worked with foreign troops that and just this monday morning, the german military set of 5 fight broke out to cobble airport between afghan security forces and unknown perpetrators. one office has been killed, 3 others are injured. with the airport remaining, the only way out of the country,
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the transport hub was closed all day. someday i will stay that way for at least the next 24 hours to try and evacuate the thousands of people who are already inside. and as of now, at least 20 people have been killed in crushes and stampede with thousands more also waiting outside the apple perimeter, save in the hope of fleeing that country. local journalists schedule this report on the situation on the ground. ah, only foreign military flights are updated from inside of cobbler international airport. have a great day for and diploma and i've gone seek you guys who work for international troops and for all other enjoys for us. i got information that now the causal gates have been shut down for 48 hours to a recruit people that are already in charge of the airport. now we are,
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and one of the rushes gate off cobbler national airport. you can see that you still 100 people are waiting outside of the in the hope to get a chance to go inside of the airport. ah, my work for 3 years for foreign troops, all my documents are approved for the day. i'm coming here to be told my documents are invalid, only us possible. get you here. america is the problem. they create these challenges that cheating we afghan people playing a game with the afghan people probably came back to normal life. most of the shops are open. we can more traffic more via goes in the industry. but though i'm ready to ask a question for people who opened it,
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chops the simply show has been over for 2 or 3 days. good thing about the talbot run and things here is that there are no explosions or fighting, but the best thing is there are no jobs were work at all. all departments have failed and people are tense. the also because it can be telephone gun, some captured by the taliban. it's 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. 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 up their positions, they will tell everyone to return to work. she started caught on the docks. lots of people are hiding in their homes. are afraid to venture out. what is your message
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to them? people that today or tomorrow we may ask them to return to work. we have announced the national amnesty for everyone. we are not cannibals, head to eat, people, say africa, our brothers. we will not tolerate afghans being, we have even us the traffic weeks, not about drivers, and much had been to never, ever disturb off. can people are, they behave very calmly with the people that show up with reports growing of reprisals by the taliban. anyone who worked for had a connection to foreign forces may be in danger. many have managed to get out of the family and friends have been left behind. we spoke to one of many interpreters who worked with the coalition forces during the 20 year campaign. he asked to keep his name and location secret. at the moment my, my family is not residing in our own private home. they're living in somebody's else home. they're fitting for they live a day. they cannot sleep,
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they're going to suppress depression because of this whole thing and, and how long to discontinue, how long them behind? i'm scared for them. i'm scared former my, my parents, the entire country is under the siege of taliban. now that they have the, 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 as a result of this. their blood will be on behalf of the american government. 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
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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, 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 the way in front of the port in front of my kids and wife. meanwhile, the clock is ticking. and as the scale and complexity of getting thousands of people out of afghanistan becomes clear, the taliban warmed the us and other foreign powers of consequences. if a complete withdrawal of that troops is not carried out by that august, the 31st deadline, president biden though, said on sunday, that they may have to stay past then, also understood the british prime and devoris. johnson believes tuesday to emergency g 7 summit to ask washington to keep its forces beyond the 31st,
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to allow the evacuation ellis to continue. what's more, the fate of africa and women under the new taliban rule remained. he had another major concern that being raised worldwide several cities across europe. so rallies of solidarity with the afghan women protest that demanded action from that governments including accepting more refugees, many express fears, the taliban will impose strict laws barring women from sudden aspects of public life. russia's read off the news agencies spoke with human rights activists started jobs about 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, paula bonds. they are mostly against them and they are mostly against those women who raise their ways, who are not coming, fighting that themselves under the 4 in inside the 4 walls of the home to their
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cities and the target that cities and then because they were against them, they were against those barbarians policies of them. they were against of their force in imposing those terrorist on their country. that's the reason, again, from a french part, the taliban pledges to respect women's rights, but only inside the boundaries of sherry a law. the militants are also encouraging women to return to work and have allowed girls to return to school. but it just says that such taliban statements and their words, in reality, women are being severely targeted. now move still further movement members walk, members who are income level mon ending good high dad in hiding it because there was when they did protests against the human rights relation, most of the terrorist, anybody according to the united nation, searching for them and my members, they contacted me and they told me that people,
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i can't say people hatteras, they're searching a door to door home to home searching and they have list of those them. and they have list of the defenders working against their policies and they're searching for them and they are trying to, i know they will before i know the will be they will be facing prosecution as 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 run from those to restrain. 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 that piece. anger over the destruction in afghanistan reached america to with rallies pouring onto the streets and protest against the taliban. seizing power off to the u. s. coalitions. rapid withdrawal. protests broke out on both the east and west coasts, from allies to washington,
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d. c. with demonstrators chanting free, i got this done, and biden, you betrayed us. they also demanded that the white house helps the struggling afghan population as politicians across nato countries blame the united states and biden, in particular, for the loss of afghanistan. donald quarter looks at the mounting angle 20 years of occupation, more than 2 trillion dollars spent hundreds of thousands dead. it's half the price tag only to get a humiliating defeat and botched evacuation in return. naturally, the president had some explaining to do to the american people in the 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 lot attacked the united states of america. had this been in another middle eastern country where he could have easily moved from we would have
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never gone to a guest fighting 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, they are not happy is used to catastrophe data people. so there were some barriers incredibility. one 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 nature has seen since its foundation. and it is in the book of change that we are facing. 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
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careful about christ sliding. those who have the united states of america bear the main responsibility for the current situation because of their decision to 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 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. we spoke with nato allies, the secretary state, or national security virus. he's been in contact with his counterparts throughout the world and our allies, as has the general r b. i keep calling them in general, but my secretary of defense, the fact of the matter is i have not seen a 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,
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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 august on the show a tremendous humanitarian crisis. this is going to hurt us. no question about it. i 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 mis fits? 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
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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. ok, well, rest assured we'll keep watching nascar stand still to come next though on arte international concerns, growing over trends, identifying men being placed in female prisons, but in some cases, abusing fellow inmates. we've got another special report on that after the break. ah, back geysers financial saliva, no money, there's a girl. i want to do. central bank support. don't call them. i know they stopped driven
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media. and the latest of a series of reports. we're looking at the problem of transgender convicts abusing female inmates in prisons around the globe. a growing number of women say their lives have been turned into a living hell by mail, prisoners exploiting the system. in one of the most notorious cases in canada, women found themselves in danger after a predatory male offender who identified as a woman was sent to that prison. the walk in on him have inspecting the dream in the bathroom, making out with someone else and wanting a free son with me. free women needed the morning after bill. someone also had to take the bill, which she used under the assumption that it provides protection from 8th and habitat as b. he
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quoted me in the laundry room one day, telling me how beautiful i was. and he was trying to get with me. it was super weird. all the girls were uncomfortable. charlotte, in the house with him and everything. he tried to tell me she was in love with me. it was weird. he asked me to read for him and this girl and sort of making out with her and feeling her route. well, i was there he bragged the how many girl his last week there. and he also bragged about taking the girls virginity in the library to give details as well as tom the air when explaining that, there were a few of us sitting there. it was in the living room do you encounter? i couldn't eat after the races are inside women's jails rating. our women men are using this loophole to access already vulnerable women who have no voice or platform to speak from our
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government. it's setting out women to be sexually assaulted by these may rate this and we're, we've requested comment from canada as correctional service about those allegations and we'll share it response as soon as we hear anything back, i'm going to leave you now without correspondence. saskia taylor and another of her in depth reports on this. today she speaks to activists that had the mason, who shed light on the story of the canadian convict, had shed her own experience of abuse by trans genders in prison. oh, i want to get a sense of your time inside, and specifically how trans inmates affected your experience. i was incarcerated with trans individuals and provincial. that was the 1st time i came across it. and then again, when i went to the federal and that was when they actually put them on compound
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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 that was trans inmates living in the compound with you? well, i was actually really great joe in provincial because they brought me over to the indirect supervision range. and there is a sex offender there that was fully intact and he was there hiding out because of his crimes. that's what the guard told me anyway. but 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 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, used to get me to try to walk back and forth in front of them so that they could
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check out my but lots of other comments as well. and then i was also in the halfway has with a male who had 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 discriminate against their identity or their expression, and even the ones, but do get denied training for their utilizing the grievance system, which is a complaint system or correctional services of canada. and when they're complain, it's not resolved, they're bringing it to the human rights tribunal. did you ever inform the gods about how uncomfortable you felt about incident you described of sexual assault and it's so how did they react?
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so. a as women, we do not utilize the avenues that are set or 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, like a lot of them are like constitution, drug addiction and i have been abused their entire lives. they just accept it as another thing that's happened to them. it's 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? yeah. some of my friends were like, pushed up against the wall in the laundry room and a hard time shut down their throats. they've had their breasts or their time sexual acquirements. a few of them happens actually assaulted. so to speak, to
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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. candidate prison system allows men to choose to solve a sentence and a female prison. if they say they identify as women, they don't need to undergo any sod, true or human therapy. that what is 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 do your best to ensure that trans women are put in prison or prison,
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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. had the 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 begun to use that return. so 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, wing, better tailored to their unique needs over the united states. similar concerns
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have been raised, for example, by the case of janai at one row, a transgender woman in annoy who was transferred from a mens prison to a women's facility that was off the she alleged mail 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 his 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 by may, over 260 transfer requests had been made and not left. some female convicts, very worried. i will not be victim anymore. i have endured sexual abuse as young as 4 to 8 and with the rape as well as numerous main staff correctional officers being an appropriate ever since california. as as b one for 2 has passed,
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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 alex har on a co founder of partners for ethical care. 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 like a sentence thing. 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 got winner and every other enabler who had the largest to happen . views the feelings of the physical safety of incarcerated women at the bottom of
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that pyramid 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 for the walt. and we'll have more features on the issues raised to cotton. ah, the when i was wrong, when i was just don't the room. yes, to shape out. the thing becomes the african an engagement. it was the trail. when so many find themselves will depart. we choose to look for common ground in
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the media, a reflection of reality. the in the world transformed what will make you feel safer? tyson lation, whole community. are you going the right way or are you being somewhere direct? what is truth? what is in a world corrupted, you need to defend the join us in the depths or remain in the shallows, ah, in a military mission against them will conclude on august 31st. i want to go to what i thought,
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the quote unquote, a young girl who really run down the roof for me. are you going to be subtle? companies such as the cut cut over the okay that i'm on the 7th. not to get a quote to ship a minute. this was the right weapon against the right. no, no, no bought it from but it was filled out through z o o z the, the signing of the us to all about agreement. and i laid the groundwork for the road ahead toward a lasting peace in afghanistan. and i know we still need that. i'm a dunaway and as i have the government has to determine which owns the going to ensure and which long does it
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not going to ensure. and it does that based on a racial makeup of neighborhoods. neighborhoods that had a certain number of black residence would have literally red lines drawn around them on the map. and they wouldn't insure mortgages in those areas because they believed that the properties would not hold value. the main turned down alone. they said, i'm a bad risk banks take up that same practice. they decide they're not going to land in those areas. that meant that all the benefits that were flowing to potential homeowners were flowing to whites and not going to minorities. makes this element of racism into our homeowners of culture. the problem is not a problem, it's been up and life away moving down someone can probably be white with them having 2 doors away. so we pass the law in 1968 and a fair housing it pro.
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