[000:00:00;00] ah, 11 o'clock in the morning, moscow time hi headlines in the wake of the taliban shock. takeover of gonna stand . the white says it didn't evacuate people earlier to try to avoid complete prices and confidence in the african government. but then now goes on to admit that related response failed to stop it happening anyway. and now you and food agency was shortages that i've got to stand within weeks. the organization is a chief for the country telling us of a looming humanitarian catastrophe. needs that are enormous new population and most important scene right now, you still provide the terms so that we can provide partially just to the people

from gartner stuff. the also former off gun interpreters who worked with nato forces during the 20 year campaign. slam the u. k government for doing nothing to get their families out. as relatives are stuck in the taliban controlled country with little jumps of escaping, they say this is something they didn't expect as a reward of 2 years of loyalty. either then the great job. but why the children just trying to get back to us this kind of shame did the nation fee retreat? africans would not trust the natural forces ever again. ah . good morning from oscar this tuesday, the 24th of august watching onto international live with me. kevin,

in here for the next off with our latest. and it's the ongoing situation and i've canister this. make a lot of headlines again as you heard the and the foreign powers and scrambling that in a frantic scramble. indeed to try to meet that august 31st troop pull out the deadline as the taliban via the consequences. if they don't, president biden has come on the scathing criticism from opponents for what's been described as a shambolic us withdrawal. the why it has no claims that wanted to avoid a crisis of confidence by evacuating earlier, but it's made, it's 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. and i can't stand 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 and not doing that. evacuation didn't exactly say the afghan government . we acknowledge that. but that was a consider judgment at the time. and here a picture from the poor perimeter, it's been such a focus of major attention. and if a good reason to, as you can see, is still large crowds at 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 shut tight for the last 2 days. but the hopes may be dashed after washington recently changed its policy at the hub under a new initiative, only american citizens green card holders and people from nato countries are allowed to enter. but afghans who've applied for special us immigrant phases reportedly told to stay away for now. and that's going to be set a bit of news for not only them, but also their friends and family abroad. i was. 7 indeed, former, i've got interpreters rallied in london on monday,

the protesting against what they called the shameful behavior of the british government slamming authorities for doing nothing. they say to get their families out of the taliban control country. further, they say it's a bit reward for putting their lives on the line previously. if i was in day, if i wouldn't take this tape, holiday will communicate with the people. how would they find out? who is local, who is in surgery. so i the grades of foot, why they kill us, why they can frame why they can target families really in the home at the operations such as for in today we come in year and just trying to get back to us. the 2nd shame we, we feel very show what we did for myself have a brother who is an attempt who was an interpreter for the british. he was his dentist stuck at the airport trying to get to the airport actually in the front

checkpoint with my family as well. so they're trying to get through the telephone check point to get to the when the taliban. so to parents and shockwave through africa and export communities around the world while examples, muhammad ship boys and african who works as a cook in italy. he fought in the army against the taliban, but then he still hasn't extended family enough. galveston, who he says, are no terrified at the prospect of a taliban regime to let him in him. 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. that the taliban are going to every home to take revenge. should the people who cooperated with the government or other nations and the taliban is not changed? the old world is looking at them,

so they're trying to hold back once they're out of the spotlight, their contract even worse than before. they will never change. i have 2 sisters, 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 it beg, 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, check these pictures out. so they're coming from the southern province of hellman, where locals of facing the aftermath of the minutes is vicious offensive, will make what you will. of those potholes there, and wall bullet holes may be recent, may be no doors or windows left and schools and hospitals are barely able to function of there's no sun but improve thing any time. soon. meantime the you and his warning will have gone, astound faces, an absolute catastrophe of hunger,

homelessness, and economic collapse, and less financial aid is urgently sent. we spoke with you and the secretary general's deputy special representative for the country. to me, this addition remains to be tense needs are enormous. nearly half of the population are either half of the children or 5 or intact faces on the cushion. basically, there is nothing to eat. and almost 600000 people placed by the dog continues to radish 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 holders for so much on this component of what the drive and how much we focused on the education.

how much we focus on how, how much is social will be moving forward in time, the significant attention to which are watching the center of the news, the political issues due to the issues that somehow if i get the social needs of the people, the limitation right? now is funding litigation right now, these are the military conflicts, but the most important scene right now use to for wind farms so that we can wind partial systems to the people from everyone on this done. it isn't a global issue. government ease and we how we're looking at the international community we have now. it was more like a site. they were religious on the help will determine so many things in the

future that the human and they may be got the woman that we've been, meaning the natural disasters, the active development, every one so many news lines are considered coming out of other huge story. so processing the thousands of the sofa managed to get it. i've got to stop now throwing up major security problems in europe. because hiding among those fleeing the taliban are convicted criminals in some cases that were earlier departed from the block back to have got a stand alone with suspects on terra watch list. let's go live your correspond and peter, all of a pizza. quite a headache for authorities there then. yeah. well, amid the chaos and the club, but to get people out of cannibal airport, what they're not able to do is screen people on the ground. and what you're ending up with is people on these flight to are either on security watch lists, or in some cases,

people who previously being deported from the european union. now in front says saying that this 5 people that are being investigated for having had links to the taliban who've already arrived back into that country in germany. 3 people who had already been defaulted once from germany having being found guilty of committed crime. committing crimes have now been re admitted into the country. now the interior ministry in berlin has said that there's no way to carry out checks on the ground in cobble. and the security screenings are having to take place when people are already in the country. the current procedure is a pragmatic one, which means that security checks on the basis of police finding that will only take place in germany. and it was deliberately decided that we no longer carry out checks on the spot. but after arrival in germany, in women, while here in budapest, where i'm speaking to you from the hungarian government and previously warns about what the chaos and the,

the on old really the disorderly evacuation from afghanistan would mean for europe . we're seeing right now in capital in other parts of ghana is frightening. and i think it could bring about an error in migration and international terrorism that we didn't want and perhaps could have avoided what was set to see some big questions directed towards us. president joe biden, when he takes part in a virtual g 7 summit that'll take place later on tuesday. you lead is sure to be asking the u. s. president. questions about what his plans are since it was his decision to pull us troops and nato troops out of nato that caused the chaos. it's in suing enough. gonna stand up a moment and what that ultimately will mean european countries. yeah. or i, peter, all of a keep us posted, you know, correspondent let know amid the kale to pull out the canister. wiki leaks is drawing attention now to its pass revelations about america's longest wars. what was it?

as soon as the twitter post the organization republish than classified us documents, which had 1st linked to the public a decade ago, back then wikileaks found the jewell and the songs warned the goals of us intervention. endless war beneficial to only a few. he said donald 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 is 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 for the 90. 1000 leaked reports that shed light on the grim affairs, the u. s. was for understandable reasons hesitant to share with the public

the unvarnished ground level picture of the word of god has done that in many respects more green than the official betrayal of the biggest leaks in u. s. military history. a devastating portrait of the failing war in afghanistan. 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 list . i'm using asian terrorism. he should be treated as an enemy combatant. so a sounds put american lives in danger when he showed the world how us soldiers

actually killed innocent people, how publications documented their involvement, case by case level in the death more than 20000 people in afghanistan and more than a 108000 people in iraq, and so when you want to distract from this, you just make the same accusation to the, to the person that is making accusation against you. wiki 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 and was poorly investigated, an american soldier was killed. they called in an ac 130 gunship. this is a c 130 cargo, refitted with canons on the side. it circled overhead and rained down shells, the warlock, se $181.00 enemy were killed. the logs also say there were no wounded or 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 force free 73 high miles missile strike on 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 san claimed is a money making scheme of endless war to wash money out of a way out of europe, back into the head of a trade that in the goal. my goal is to have in no wonder the west may want to bury the truth and condemn julian

a song 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. we talked about us policy and i've got to start with independent journalist hello. can also form whistleblower barret brown. i think the u. s. government to some extent doesn't really know what it's fighting for. and the funding, pretty big thing as such, it's more of a reflexive sort of series of power plays by individuals in the governments. the basically that the manner in which the u. s. has a pedal, whistleblowers journalists, leakers backs even before dropped into office. i think it fall into a perhaps, to a to all time low and things are not improved. 656 years. i think 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 us foreign policy. i think we're having conversations about us moore's in the middle east and in particular afghan and stan, it is so important to talk about julian assigned. and would you be contribution? i think the united states government is seeking to make an example out of julian assad to show other journalists. this is what can happen to you if you expose the u . s. military industrial complex. and if you embarrass the u. s. government wiki league showed us through the afghan war diaries in the iraq war, loved it. these were crimes were not happening here. and there this with some sort of rare occurrence. there were civilian casualties on a regular basis in wiki leaf expose that we should be thinking, joy and sergeant, we should all be advocating for his immediate release because this was certainly public interest journalism. one of the key games, of course, of the us invasion of afghanistan back then was to annihilate the al qaeda

terrorist network which declared war in america 5 years before the us and the country 25 years on though that cold appears to be missed despite c u. s. president insisting that tara group had been eradicated. what interest do we have in afghanistan? at this point with kinder gone, we went to have ghana, stan for the express purpose of getting rid of al qaeda in afghanistan as well as, as well as getting you know, some a lot. and we did. how many al qaeda remain in africa? we know that, okay, al qaeda is a presence as well as isis in afghanistan. and we've talked about that for quite some time. we do not believe it is exorbitantly high, but we don't have an exact figure for you. stay so. so comes as a taliban puts the security cobble noah hands of cultural. hi connie, let me tell you about him with a 5000000 dollar reward on his head. he's on america's most wanted list at the

moment and is believed to be linked to al qaeda terrorist operations. he's also thought to run the hotline had connie network, which is a taliban affiliated group. conservative activists, greg, as of a can tell this is a very real chance that i've got to stand could turn that into a terrorist haven. you have terrorists whether they were former or al qaeda by this taliban. what they did right there is they reunited kind of back to see how things used to be when the taliban was kind of really running the show over there. we can expect basically, full blown islamic state leadership coming straight out of bowl, as well as a new 8th and a new hot spot for terrorism and terrorists, such as motel acting as well as leaders with alabaster now has more military, great weapons in that country. then probably we do actually think that's what they're doing on the giant middle finger to america. we've got to take this seriously. i mean, this is

a radical group of taliban extreme. and these are some of the worst people on earth . after 20 years of us being over there and disrupting their way, a life taking taliban live, killing them all ad. so i wouldn't be surprised if they try to get revenge on us. but we just need to be ready. we need to, our terrorism needs to be heads on the switch, on top alert, we're supposed to write to journalists abroad casa jim laurie, who covered vietnam and to africa was he shared with us, his thoughts on the us evacuation from couple compare it with withdraw from saigon, back in 1975, i think to the corruption was a major fact true. what we see 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 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 see a nation and the way it part of you run on the issue now is worthy 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, what 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 been totally ill prepared for this kind of evacuation me. the problem lives with the commanding structure and whether 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 the

african military that really didn't really exist. it's not easy to lose a 20 year war, and now america, in 50 years as lost to 20 year wars. exactly 24 minis. pass, kevin, when hear it out? of course, so much more. i want to tell you about, including this a former u. k. prime minister who sent troops into i've got to stand blas, snow the u. s. decision to pull out calling the reasoning behind it. imbecilic people look at that are more women by the this is your media. a reflection of reality in

a world transformed what will make you feel safer. type relation or community. ah, you're going the right way. where 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 ah.

the former british prime minister tony blair, than who sent u. k. troops into i've gotten this done today. years ago, criticized the u. s. decision now to pull out branding with justifications behind it. imbecilic. we didn't need to do it. we chose to do it. we did it in a b, d, and to an embassy political slogan about ending the forever was. blair added that britain's involvement in the region was not hopeless despite the taliban to advance, and the u. k. has a moral obligation to stay in the country now until the afghans who need to be are evacuated. but journalists, international affairs specialist, richard med hers is scathing about blaze claims. he calls the slogan about ending forever wars imbecility. but he's the one who followed george bush, the laughing stock of the, of the western world in 2001 into 2 wars. both of ghana, son and iraq, and he's the one who could not finish the war for 20 years later. now in 2021 and he's still offering excuses,

trying to justify what he did. the united kingdom and the united states did not invade of garrison to help women go to university, even though that's a great thing. they invaded afghanistan under the precincts of nation building and posing the taliban, and getting all cato they, they claim that they assassinated they, they got been logged in in 2011. so what are they still doing there? he's the one who started this war in iraq and afghanistan. he was right behind george bush in the warren tara. so of course, i'm still trying to justify what he did. a bit of other news this morning away from i've got to stand a washington d. c. police officer who fatally shorter from supporter during the january 6 capital building riots has been cleared by an internal probe. the case has become a political cause, with some republicans hailing the big tim u. s. air force veteran ashley babbitt, a martyr. kind of moped 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 event 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 office there in this case potentially saved members and stuff from serious injury and possible death from a large crowd of rioters who forth the way into the u. s. capital and to the health chamber, where members and stuff with 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 or 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 as 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. yes, it's also important to know that there were 3 other protesters who died during the january 6 capitals. now 2 died from natural causes and one from 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 are 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. thanks for checking in with us. today's kevin o in here in the team are often back with lauren just over half an hour. but don't forget, keep cross artsy, don't call me for anything we're talking about. i think breaking that might happen today.

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