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and i know we still need that almost done and does it have the morning in the wake of the taliban shock. takeover gonna stay on the white house says he didn't the vacuum people earlier to avoid a complete crisis of confidence in the african government. but it admits that it's related response, fail to stop from happening anyway. now on top of it all the you and food agency warning shortages, and i've got to stand. but in weeks the organization's aid chief for the country telling us of a looming humanitarian catastrophe. needs are almost new to population are most important. seeing right now to provide funds so that we can or why partial from the people from the also former i've got interpreters who worked. busy with nato
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forces during the 28 campaign slam the u. k. government for doing nothing, they say to get their families out. as relatives are stuck in the taliban controlled country with little chance of escaping, they say this is something they didn't expect as a reward of 2 years of loyalty. i did a great job, but why? just trying to get back to us. the 2nd shame did the nation feel betrayed. afghans would not trust the natural forces of it again. ah! hello, good morning from oscar this tuesday, the 24th of august. you want singleton international live with me, kevin, here with you for the next half hour. the latest and as you heard the ongoing situation, enough canister, this making a lot of the headlines again,
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focusing on coverage today. so foreign powers are now in a frantic scramble to meet the august 31st troop pull out deadline as the taliban consequences if they don't. president biden meantime, come on the scathing criticism from opponents for what's been described as shambolic us withdrawal. the white house no claims wanted to avoid a crisis of confidence by evacuating earlier but admit it belated response failed to avoid that. 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 africa and government officials, but supporters of the afghan government in afghanistan, including many of the people who want to come out. now said that doing so would 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,
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we acknowledge that. but that was a consider judgment at the time. next, for your pictures from the poor perimeter that place has been seen as such. chaos of light, isn't it? well, you can see a large crowd, still, the gates of the only way out of the country. people are anxiously waiting for the airport to open its doors. again, they've been firmly shut up for the last 48 hours, but their hopes may be dashed up to washington changed its policy and now the hub. under new initiative, only american citizens green, cardholders and people from nato countries are allowed to enter. but africans who applied for special us immigrant visas were reportedly told to stay away for now at least, and that is going to be bitter news for them, their friends and family abroad. the former, i've got interpreters running in london on monday is what you're saying. and your screens neither protesting against what they call the shameful behavior of the british government, slamming authorities for doing nothing they say to get their families out of
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a telephone controlled country. further, they say it's a bitter reward than for putting their lives on the line previously. if i was in day, if i wouldn't take this tape, how they will communicate with the people, how would they find out who is local, who is insurgent? so i did a great job, but why they kill us? why they can afraid why they can get family the people who met the person such as for in today we come in year and they are just trying to get back to us. the 2nd shame we, we feel very show what we did myself, have a brother who is an interpreter, who was an interpreter for the british forces. he was his dentist at the airport trying to get to the airport actually did it from checkpoint with the taliban. my
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family as well. so they're trying to get through the tell a bunch going to get to the when the taliban swept to power at sun shockwave through afghan expert communities around the world. one example is a guy called mohammed ship. he's an african who works as a coke in italy. he fought in the army against that kind of bond. he still has an extended family and i've got a son who he says on a terrified at the prospect of a taliban regime to let him in. then i am here initially, but my thoughts are enough gonna stand every day. i think of how they are, what they are doing and how i can help them. i feel really bad about what is happening in our country. we never thought something like this could ever happen because the taliban are going to every home to take revenge. the people who cooperated with the government or other nations and the taliban is not changed. old . the world is looking at them. so they're trying to hold back once they're out of the spotlight, contract even worse than before. they will never change. i have 2 sisters,
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a brother and some nephews and nieces who are in my country. they want to leave for the best scared week. i'm better afraid of dying at the bag since all this happened . i do not know if i'm sleeping or i'm awake. i do not know what i'm doing. well, i go to work every day. and after my shift, i go to see people i hope, can help my family. and while the taliban has been claiming it took the country relatively easily, here pictures him from the southern province of helmand, who locals are facing the aftermath of the military. vicious offensive. you can see the marks in the wall from the bullets, i guess that your guess is good as mine, but they look pretty reason. there are no doors or windows left in schools and hospitals. they barely able to function and there's no sign that's going to change anytime soon. meantime, the us warning the afghanistan face has an absolute catastrophe of hunger, homelessness. nicholas collapse unless financial aid is urgently sent. we spoke
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with you and sexy generals, deputy special representative for the country. it is addition, 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 is nothing to eat and almost 600000 people, placed by the dog, 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 forward. dates are contributing in the, in the driving of what is happening over the years. we have all this so much on this because of the drive and how much we focused on the education, how much it was held, how much is social will be moving forward in time to
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be significant attention areas which are watching the center of the news. the political issues due to didn't issues that somehow if i get the social needs of the people, the limitation right now is local funding. limitation right now is that consequences or the military conflicts? but the most important thing right now to provide funds so that we can provide partial assistance to the people on guard stuff. everyone on this done, it is a global issue. i've gotten some ease and we how they're looking at the international community. we have our goal more like a site they, we really need help will determine so many things in the future that the human and they may be got the room in that meeting, the natural disasters,
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the active development everyone as political follow to a course from i've got to stand the e u and us going for a rift anyway and bilateral ties. and it's aggravated by america's rapid pull out the soap to hastily conveyed g 7 meeting later today, tuesday, we'll address that. but if things were already turned on friendly with the top diplomat blaming washington for hampering efforts to evacuate european citizens from afghanistan. 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. well, numerous reports claim the leaders of the g 7 are going to press president biden, to extend the evacuation deadline. pass the 31st of this month. what was the telephone after about that? if it happened, it dependent jonas lucas. k told us the situation
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a cobble airport is a western lead mess. yet again. the medic concern railey or direct because the situation is getting worse. the end of the month is near. and if the taliban saw all those pointing, shooting, again, say, shooting before the end of that before the new month is, has started, then it will become an even worse chaos. so i suppose the best way is that the americans own trade, as many as they can with the help of the nato forces claims that can land that the dutch, the belgians, the brits, the french and, and trying to take as many as they can. but the problem is the employee, all of all the stuff are left to themselves. it's just sy gone all over again. who could trust western democracies after this?
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amid the chaotic colo canister, wikileaks now is drawing attention to its past revelations about america's longest war. as it is, was a series of twitter post the organization republic classified us documents, which it 1st lead to the public a decade ago. but then wiki league sounded during the songs warned of the goals of us intervention unless was beneficial to only a few. he said donal quarter takes up the story. the swift fall of the afghan capital cast a dark shadow over every sacrifice made in the fight against the taliban. but there is a man who tried to stop things from going down this road. his name is julian, a son, she's the co founder of wiki leaks, and behind one of the biggest revelations in u. s. military history. in 2010, the whistleblower group released the afghan papers more than 90. 1000 leaked reports that shed light on the grim affairs,
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the u. s. was for understandable reasons hesitant to share with the public the unvarnished ground level picture of the word of gaston, there is many respects more green than the official betrayal. again, of the biggest leaks in u. s. military history, a devastating portraits of the failing war and getting billed from when these reports came into the public eye, washington's reaction was not to say, sorry, or even to try to deflect a guilt. instead, it shifted the blame on 2 songs, calling him a criminal for apparently putting american lives in danger. what he likes, walks like a hostile intelligence service and talks like a hostile intelligence service. it is an attack on the international community
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liaisons engaged in terrorism. he should be treated as an enemy combatant. so a psalms put american lives in danger. when he showed the world how us soldiers actually killed innocent people, how publications documented their involvement as a case by case level in the death more than 20000 people in afghanistan, and more than 108000 people in iraq. and so when you want to distract from this, you display the same accusation to the, to the person that is making accusation against you. with the leaks determined that the 2006 operation medusa resulted in one of the highest civilian death tolls of the war. despite the shocking circumstances surrounding the event, it was poorly investigated. an american soldier was killed. they killed in an ac $130.00 gunship. this is a c 130 cargo, refitted with canons on the side. it circled overhead and rained down shells the warlock say $181.00 enemy were killed. the logs also say there were no wounded or
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captured. it was a significant massacre. the afghan papers go on to suggest that the cover ups began with those actually carrying out the slaughter us soldiers reporting on their own actions appear to lump civilian deaths with the number of insurgency had killed. wiki leaks, revelations also shed light on special task force. 373, and a lead unit task with hunting down taliban leaders. many times though, they were involved in the killing of civilian men, women, and children, and washington later trying to water down the situation with misleading information about what happened. one example of this was when the task force fired rockets at a compound quoting nefarious activity there. but it was apparently not the case. it does appear to be evidence of all crimes. in this example is the task for 373 high miles missile strike on
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a house which killed 7 children. nato later recognized the children's deaths they had caused, but said that initially they had no idea they were there. the colossal price american taxpayers paid needless suffering caused the fall of a corrupt, failed state. why did all this continue for so long? one answer is gigantic prophets for giants of the military. industrial complex with stock returns from 2001 to 2021. for government contracted companies like lockheed martin and northrop grumman totaling more than 1000 percent. it's one of many seemingly inevitable consequences of what a sons' claimed is money making scheme of endless war to use wash money out of a way out of the base of european getting back into the hands of a truck. that is the goal. my goal is to have in
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the morning no wonder the west may want to bury the truth and condemn julian san, whose fate is still hanging in the air as he faces 175 years in prison. if extradited from a u. k. jail cell to the united states don't quote as well. we talked about us policy and i've got to start with independent journalist taylor who duck and also former whistleblower brown. i think the u. s. government, to some extent, it doesn't really know what is fighting for an or dividing pretty big thing. such, it's more of a reflexive sort of series of power plays by individuals in the government. the basically that the manner in which the u. s. has a pedal, whistleblowers, journalists, leakers facts, even before truck in the office. i think it fall into a perhaps to a, to all time low. and things that non prove 656 years. i think
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anyone who knows who they're talking about has to look at the us as a wild animal and go from there. this is not the 1st time that jolina sanchez was correct in his assessment related to u. s. foreign policy. i think what having conversations about us war in the middle east and in particular, afghan, it is so important to talk about. julianna's staunch, and would you be contributions? i think the united states government is seeking to make an example out of juliana songs to show other journalists. this is what can happen to you if you expose the us military industrial complex. and if you embarrass the u. s. government, we can show that through the afghan war diaries and the rapport loves it. these were crimes were not happening here. and there that there was some sort of rare occurrence. there were civilian casualties on a regular basis in wiki lease. expose that we should be thinking, joanna sergeant, we should all be advocating for his immediate release because this was certainly
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public interest journalism. we also spoke to right journalist and broadcast, the jim laurie who covered vietnam and to africa was he shared with us his thoughts on the us evacuation from carbo, comparing it with the draw them from the side gone back in 1975. i think that corruption, though, is a major factor and what we saw today the me, in many ways the mission should have ended up a lot of was killed. that was the purpose. unfortunately, whatever america gets involved in foreign wars, they have a tendency to want to rebuild the nation. sometimes in the model of the way americans think things should be. i'm not saying this building is not a good thing, but it's almost in unachievable thing. it seems to me, if you, if you try to put it in terms of the way american c, a nation and the way it ought to be run on.
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the issue now is we're the americans prepared to get people out really getting them out fast enough. the answer is no where they prepare back in 1975. they were also not prepared to scramble and they basically avoid all the bureaucracy. the american bureaucracy is much more complicated today that it was in 1975. i see the process for getting visas for the f. get interpreters is an enormously complicated process. that kind of thing did not exist in 1975 people were getting out much more easily. there are so many parallels now, of course, totally different wars, different history, different backgrounds, different context, but the panics end of each of these wars bears so much, similarity is troubling to me. when you see that the americans seem cobble to have
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been totally prepared for this kind of evacuation me problem lives with the commanding structure and whether. busy or not, they were good, strong, dedicated who had a loyal following commanders and we here and we read about all the corruption that occurred over this period time. we read about phantom armies and i was interested to see that there were numbers of military that really didn't really exist. it's not easy to lose a 20 year war. and now america, in 50 years as last to 20 year wars, if you waking up with us this morning, hello there, good morning, tuesdays going good. so far we're watching run of the world. this is our international and this is the german government. so the pressure for how it's
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the ongoing retreat from off canister is the latest incident where the government tier and berlin has been accused of being unprepared. slow to act devoid of decisiveness. if the principle of political responsibility is not for the generates into a mere empty fray. last a step back in the events of major mistakes, all widespread failure. it was obviously not well prepared. there was too much hesitation. chancellor merkel has acknowledged that lessons need to be learned when it comes to afghanistan and how quickly the country fell to the taliban. these are still missing. at this point, i can see that we have noticed you several goals. and we hope to discuss both lessons. we have loans from this. however, amid the cale surrounding the evacuation from carpal airport, they've been numerous stories about the ministry of defense and the foreign ministry in berlin. not knowing who was in charge of what, when it came to getting the embassy and stuff out. senior figures in the ruling coalition saying, apologies and not enough for you miss natasha. i wasn't sure if we need to
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fundamentally reassess german 4 and security policy. this must be done above all by a new federal government after the election. this is already an attempt by the government institutions to put blame on each other. i don't approve of this. it doesn't make a good impression about our government, and that is not enough. it is also not enough to say, sorry, we made a mistake. it's not just the ongoing situation in afghanistan, the german government being accused of being a day legged in a euro short on when it comes to living up to its responsibility. just last month, the west of the country was ravaged by flooding that killed nearly 200 people since then form of fire fighters bosses of flam. the lack of preparedness from the federal government in berlin. while people we spoke to in the flooded areas said they were pretty much left to fend for themselves. the federal government, the code exercises under the name lucas for youth, the unthinkable with played out and analyzed list recommendations were prepared
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results virtually nil, con happened won't happen. we can explain it to the population, cost too much money. the list of reasons for rejection was almost never ending or dang time due to time. no one was expecting that the warning came too late. a public announcement, 5 or 6 hours in advance, would have helped to save some essential belongings to the glacial pace, at which cove at 19 vaccines were procured and administered in germany. the country soft approaching 60 percent of the population being fully vaccinated, but it's unlikely that target said for the end of the summer, a going to be met. anglo merkel is stepping down and the current government will be replaced at the upcoming election. but they're still in charge of keeping things running for the next 5 weeks, at least. peter all her off the berlin and bringing some of the news this morning away from us, ghana sat in the washington d. c. police office who fatally shot a trump support a jury. the january 6th capital building right has been cleared by an internal
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probe. the case has become a political cause, some republicans hailing the victim us air force veteran ashley babbitt, a martyr. kellum, open reports. 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, 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 rioters who forced their way into the u. s. capital and to the house chamber where members and stuff was steps away. 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
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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 ass babbitt, many conservatives have kind of considered ashley bab it 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 a drug overdose. in addition to that, there was another cap, capital police officer who died on the scene. first, it was reported that he was bludgeon a 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,
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the capital police say case closed no further investigation, no disciplinary action against the officer as program to see here, heads up max co here off the break with the look of galveston is ramifications. now . what led up to a big invite to keep across all unused r t dot com today. but to find out here in moscow this tuesday, kevin, out of the team wish you a super day. thanks for watching all t international me. what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy. even 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, very political time. time to sit down and talk
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americans love buying homes. ah, this was a funded mental part of how our political leadership and our country, large understood the bargain. you get a whole and then you will rebel, right as the things you don't revolt if you have a stake in the system. the really interesting dialogue back and think about the longer deeper history of what housings meant in the united states. not just that old question of the american dream, but the bigger question of who the dream has been for the oh, the me the
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max kaiser. this is the kaiser report. let's take a trip down memory lane through the history books, talk to my cio. politics as it was a 100 years ago. 150 years ago from some big brain. see, we're looking at the big map and how that's relevant today. stacey. well, our upcoming guess, dan collins tweeted something that blew my mind and it fits into a lot of what the cause report has been talking about for the past while the past decade. and you know, that whole region of the world of this, the cities trap, the silk road, china, china, emerging, and all the problems happening in afghanistan, the middle east, that certain area of the world. and we're going to look at something called that i
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