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the the in the wake of the taliban shock take over the gun to stand. the white house says it did not evacuated earlier to avoid a complete crisis of confidence in the government and also admitted the washington related response. had failed anyway. also to come as un food agencies, one of afghan. sure. he's really a week to dream said she's in the country. tell us the growing humanitarian catastrophe. needs are enormous. nearly half of the population are needed to see right now we still provide adequate funds so that we can provide partial systems to the people from gartner earlier. so my scans employed by foreign states did manage to flee, but their relatives and i remained in the country bearing retribution from the taliban. we spoke to one translator on condition of complete anonymity because
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i believe that americans are responsible for this declarations. and then today's anybody who will be killed as a result of this, there will be on the hands of the american government. ah, hello, welcome. just gone 11 o'clock in moscow. you're watching the international. now ask, understand, has entered a 2nd. we come to the toefl taliban control, forcing the panic to pull out of us forces the white house, 9 claims it wanted to avoid a quote, crisis of confidence by evacuating earlier, but it made it failed. anyway, we did contemplate a big grape hail, move of afghans and others in the july, early august timeframe. we made the determination not to do so because not just afghan government officials, but supporters of the afghan government in afghanistan,
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including many of the people who want to come out. now said that doing so with trigger a complete crisis of confidence in the government as it turns out. not taking out the vacuum, not doing that. evacuation didn't exactly say the afghan government, we acknowledge that. but that was a consider judgment at the time. or despite the complexity of getting phases of afghanistan, the taliban has formed the u. s. and these allies have consequences if a complete truth and truly not done by the penitent own deadline of august 31st semester evacuation, starting from airport. 20 people have been confirmed, killed in crushes and stampede with thousands more queuing side. the airport in the hope of fleeing their country, local journalists told us the situation on the grant ah, with only foreign military flights are updated from inside of cobbler
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international airport. quit the foreign diplomats and i've gone teachers who work for international troops and for other enjoys for us. i got information that now the cobbled gates have been shut down for 48 hours to quit people that they are already the size of the airport. now we are, and one of the rushes kate off cobbler 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, audio is not my work for only 3 years. for foreign troops, all my documents are approved for the 3rd day. i'm coming here to be told my documents are invalid, only us passport gets you here. america is the problem. they create these challenges. that cheating we get people playing
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a game with the people probably came back to normal life. most of the shops are open. we can see more traffic more via goes in the industry. but now i'm going to ask a question. some people who opened the shops recently has been over for 2 or 3 days . the good thing about the talbot run and things here is that there are no explosions or fighting, but the bad thing is there are no jobs or work at all. all departments have failed and people are tense. the also the congress if you can tell if i've got some upset by the taliban, it has been several days that the government departments are shut down or clues. people are coming every day behind each department of the government,
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but they don't get permission from telephone to get inside of the government department for the 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 and minister. our cabinets has been appointed. when only this 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. afraid to venture out, what is your message to them? my tell our 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 here to eat . people say afghan with our brothers. we will not tolerate afghans being disturbed . we have even us the traffic, please do not disturb our drivers. and much had been to never, ever disturb. can people are, they behaved very calmly with the people that meanwhile, the u. n. is warning that afghan standards face quote, an absolute catastrophe of hunger, homelessness, and economic collapse unless financial aid is sent urgently. we spoke with the un
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secretary general separately, special representative in the country made this edition remains to be tense, needs are enormous, nearly half of the population are neither half of the children or 5 orientation phase of fission. basically, there's nothing to eat. and almost 600000 people didn't place by the drought continues to ravage the country. one of the major issues which we probably did not factor in is how much of the natural disaster drove. and the forward dates are contributing in the, in the driving of what happens over the years. we have holders for so much on this component was driving the company. how much we focused on the education, how much it was held,
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how much is social will be moving forward in the time that the significant attention to which are watching the center of the news, the political issues due to didn't issues that somehow if i get bob the social needs of the people. the limitation right now is funding litigation right now. the 2nd says or the military conflicts. but the most important thing right now is to provide funds so that we can wind partial systems to the people who are going to start every one on this done. it is a global issue. i've gotten respond ease and we how they're looking at the international community. we are malleable, the live site, they, we really just stuck on the help will determine so many things in the future that this human right. they may be got the room in that meeting,
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the natural we packed and development every one now with reports driving of taliban reprisals. anybody who has had connections with foreign forces could be in danger. some have already gone out of the country but were forced to leave their family and friends behind. we spoke to one of many interpreters. he 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, you know, are on private home, they're living in somebody'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 those
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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 the hands 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 metal forces of been contacted by many british citizens who are stuck enough to stop. one of the situation with the british citizen with his gentlemen 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 d a port 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 the same time the top diplomat does blame the u. s. for hampering efforts to evacuate european citizens, joseph burrell, wound that security levels at the airport and making the task near impossible. the problem is access to the airport, the americans are in control and security measures are very strong. we complained we ask them to show more flexibility. we are unable to get our employees through. they want to evacuate $60000.00 people between now and the end of this month. it's mathematically impossible. independent journalistic renee tells us that the situation at bull airport is a west and that mass. yet again, the americans railey under duress because song,
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the situation is getting worse. the end of the month is mayor. and if the taliban are all those wanting, shooting again, let's say shooting before the end of before the new month is, has started, then it will become an even worse chaos. so i suppose the best way is that the american express trait as many as they can with the help of the nato forces planes that can land that. the dutch, the bell says that brings the french and, and trying to take as many as they can. but the problem is and remains as your just said, the employee column, you of all the stuff are left to themselves. it's just sy gone all over again. who could trust western democracies after this? well, anger over the destruction in afghanistan is reached america to with paper pouring onto the streets there to protest against the taliban, seizing power,
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running broke from both east and west coast from allies. washington demonstrate this chancing free afghan a stand by the traders in demand that the white house helps struggling afghan population. it comes as politicians across nathan member states, blaine, the u. s. and joe biden, in particular, for the fall of us can stand, don't quarter, looks at the main thing and 20 years of occupation. more than 2 trillion dollars spend 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, a majority of americans, and forgive me, i'm just the messenger no longer considered 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. america. had this been in
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another middle eastern country where he could have easily moved from we would have never gone to gast, 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, they are not happy issues. catastrophe. good. people for their worst embarrassing credibility. one for the developing of international relations. 99 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 its foundation . and it is in the book of change that we're facing. to see that commander in chief call into question, the courage of men i forthwith to claim that they ran shameful
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in those who have never fought for the colors they fly should be careful about christ fighting. those who have the united states of america bear the main responsibility for the current situation because of their decision to leave a 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 of state, or national security via he's been in contact with his counterparts throughout the world. and our allies, as has the general r b, i keep calling him in general, but my secretary defense, the fact of the matter is i have not seen a matter of fact the exact opposite. i've got, this is above 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
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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 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 invite 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
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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. so another news tonight, the washington d. c. capital police officer who fatally shot a trump supporter in the general 6 riots is being played by an internal probe. the case has become a political cause, with some republicans hailing the victim us air force veteran ashley 5 it as a matter of cold, mocking. as more this is part of the ongoing fall out of the january 6 the capital riot. and we now have the us capital police announcing that they have concluded their investigation into the killing of ashley babbitt, who was fatally shot during the events that took place on capitol hill. now, according to the statement they've released,
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there won't be any disciplinary action against the officer and carried out the shooting. they say case closed, this is what they said. the actions of the officer in this case potentially saved members and stuff from serious injury and possible death from a large crowd of riots who forced their way into the u. s. capital and to the house chamber where members and stuff was steps the way. now many conservatives say the case is not closed, and furthermore, there's a lot of outrage on the conservative side because the name of the officer who pulled the trigger has not been reveal it say there are very serious threats to the person involved. his life is on the line, and so they cannot make public the individual who shot ashley babbitt, many conservatives have kind of considered ashley babbitt to be a martyr. many liberals are deeply concerned about this and the politicization of this gas. it's also important to know that there were 3 other protesters who died during the january 6 capital riot. now 2 died from natural causes and one from
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a drug overdose. in addition to that, there was another cap, a capitol police officer who died on the scene. first, it was reported that he was bludgeoned to das. later it was ruled that he died from a stroke. and after the capital riot, there are 4 officers who were involved, who are alleged to have committed suicide. and is said that the trauma of the capital riot contributed to that. so that's the situation. but as of now, the capital police say case closed no further investigation, no disciplinary action against the officer and will return to a topic that we do feel deserve more investigation. and it's getting elsewhere in the latest of a series of reports, we're looking at the problem of transgender convicts, abusing female inmates imprisons around the globe. a growing number of women say that lives have been turned into a living hell by mail, prisoners exploiting the system. and one of the most the tories cases in canada,
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women found themselves in danger after a predatory male offender who identified as a woman were sent to that prison. the walk in on him have inspecting the gym in the bathroom, making out with someone else and wanting to re some with me for 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 is b. he quoted me the wanted one day telling me how beautiful i was. and he was trying to get with me. he 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.
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it was weird. he asked me to read for him and the girl and started making out with her and feeling her route. well, i was there he breck, how many girls his last week there. and he also bragged about taking the girls virginity in the library to give details as well as the air when it, when there were a few of us even there. it was in the living room do you encounter? i couldn't eat after the races are inside women's jails, raising our women men are using this loophole to access already vulnerable. women who have no voice, so platform to speak from our government is setting out women to be sexually assaulted by these may read this well, we have requested comment from candidates correctional service about those
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allegations. and we'll let you know when we receive a reply. in the meantime, we'll leave you with sam taylor's latest in depth report, because today she speaks to activists had the mason, who sheds more light on that story in canada, and her own experience of abuse, imprison. 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, when i went to the 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 love that that was trans inmates living in the compound with you?
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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 fully intact and he was there hiding out because of his crimes. that's what the guards told me anyway, 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, 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 has 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
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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 they're complaint, 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? so. a as women, we do not utilize the avenues that are for us. 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
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a lot of them are like constitution, drug addiction and 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? yes. 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 breast or their time sexual acquirements. 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
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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 been really, really big power difference between them. candidate prison system allows men to choose to solve their sentence in a female prison. if they say they identify as women, they don't need to undergo any thought true or hormone therapy. that what is enough fuel far to say this is in the name of the quality and to ensure the safety of transgender is the little 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, more appropriate to their gender identity? yes, i will ensure that i consider myself to be a fairly strong advocate for. for l g
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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, not have 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 have been raised, for example, by the case of to no one wrote 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
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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 align 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 any more. 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, 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
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har on 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 like phantom 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 use them and scott, winner and every other enabler who had the largest to happen, views, the feelings of, and the physical safety of incarcerated women at the bottom of that param it needs when we of course understand it has to be a top off. he's keeping a close eye on similar developments in the us and elsewhere. the walt will have more features on the issues raised took up.
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