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[000:00:00;00] ah, ah, $170.00, maybe $200.00 in just the tragic off the massive power attachments, chicago port where crowd of people both astounds and foreigners crime together waiting to be attracted to the country correspond to report from the city. there were searches and raids carried out throughout the city over the course of
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tonight's and the terror threat at the airport is still hot. the witness to open explosion was not just 10 meters away from it shot this to deal with us. we can talk t, he will call the recording moment more than 30 or 40 people laying dead. i mean, it was a really bad scene. i mean, when i saw them, i just didn't that just don't look at them. just look at me. you as president pledges retaliation to be this hey, claim terror attack was also killed. 13 us saw this month. we will not forgive we will not forget we will hunt you down to make you pay.
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ah, ah, no unwelcome monks joining me and we take a look at some of the biggest stories of the day so far. well, jumping right in afghanistan, reeling from a devastating bomb attack in the capital of the now to run country, $170.00 people were killed, including american military personnel, some $200.00 more were injured. according to the latest reports, the pentagon now says only one explosion took place. although on thursday, the u. s. defense press secretary confirmed the 2 blas had rocked cobbles international airport. islamic state correson, which is a regional affiliate of isis, says it was behind the atrocity just to warn you, there are some graphic images coming up. while your reports suggested that one of the blas happened on entrance to the white counts were waiting in line to be processed to fly out, well, teeth were thrown into
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a sewer drain located near by. an explosive fest is said to have been used in one of the attacks now the other last supposedly shook an area around hotel web. british officials were processing our downs to fly to the u. k. so our team u. s. service members were among the dead along with $28.00 taliban and it's also known the 3 brits, including a child were killed and another warning now there are more potentially upsetting images from cobble where you can see covered. forty's of victims have been laid out in the street with grieving families, identifying and collecting, know, and the ones we spoke to those affected. yes, i'm sorry, so the belinda belinda dixon. i was i was in the sunday
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waiting for money. no money people on british people that doesn't work properly. and some last one looks like 20 people other than the tool. again, plus one people like 60 people that people have no like have no legs. he's more i guys give it a couple for us and told us how the cities fairing of the tragic events. the situation so far this morning is somewhat comma than it was yesterday, but we kept hearing as many as half a dozen explosion, and this is off of the to terrorist form blocks at the airport. some of them are explained by the trailer, bad to, to the local population as, as control detonations carried out by american servicemen destroying their assets, equipment that they don't want to leave behind and that they can't evacuate. nevertheless,
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things that hasn't been the sort of shooting we had overnighted and the sirens that we heard yesterday. but from what we understand, and this has been confirmed to us by, by numerous sources, there were such as and raids carried out throughout the city over the course of tonight. and this this morning as well. those searches and grades are still ongoing . the terror threats at the airport is still high. you may have seen footage from the airport this morning. the crowds never went away. it's very difficult to describe just how many people there are at the airport now. how tightly packed together they are and how impossibilities to, to, to vet them, to sort of pack them all down before they get to the fence. before they get to the various check boards, thousands and thousands of people packed together screaming, jocelyn, shoving, trying to get into the airport,
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that hasn't changed. and nato countries as well as the taliban. all warning with the crowds, much dispersed for their own safety. those who carried out these, these attacks, they saw the cottage that they caused, isis allegedly has claimed responsibility and the, the threat to ease. and the, the fear here is that they'll try again, which is why we're seeing these searches carried out. now these raids by the taliban sizes allegedly, coordinating with us forces, but as i said, the situation remains tense, not quite as bad as it was yesterday, but nevertheless far from come. the following figure was apparently taken off to one of the explosions that was sent to us by witness the between the 2 black shots were also reported on site, so it's unclear who fired them. we spoke to the mind behind the video who just 10
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meters away from one of those expressions. this was something that we are living in probably like 420 or 2 or more than that. i hadn't witnessed the thing that hurt our eyes. i was alert full of here and also we couldn't breathe. the oxygen was all like that. there was no oxygen at that time. after that, when that happened, the americans just shot the fire. i mean, they opened the guns at the people. there was only one exam and that was near the explosion area. so when they tried to push me and like i really tried to reach my aunt and her. but i couldn't dave for me and i thought that my aunt and her children rushed. then pete or there are maybe god forbid,
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they might be dead by now. so when i went there and saw them, i was really thankful for that that they were like, we saw me and many dead bodies. i like maybe more, more than 30 or 40 people were laying beer dead. i mean, it was a really bad scene. i mean, when i saw them, i just didn't that just don't look at them. just look at it was. so, i mean this is very bad. for sure, and more unsettling to his showing covered bodies lying in the street ahead of the blast, the u. k. u. s. and other western nations had been warning the nationals about the threat over severe terror attack. advise me to avoid the airport. the witness who we just spoke to says americans have failed, the afghan people, stuff was we feel abandoned. that's because all these people, those who are trying to get in there for they are having some documents that,
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that they can go. but the other people's lives actually doesn't have anything. all these you have to do and the media is in the news store. lots of them doesn't have any legal documents that they are trying to get out. there are like more than $20000.00 we have. but right now this thing is all messed up automated up. i don't know why the americans are not processing then anymore. but a lot of people just like us are striking and hearing. and i know everyone is trying, you know, just to get out of this country of this situation and run from taliban. so yes, we left abandoned. we are left behind. we just want, you know, to get out of this country as soon as possible, before you know the situation and get more critical. many of those entered in the high call now in hospital some fighting for their lives. we spoke to one survivor
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who described his experience then i had applied for the visit, the for this invited us to come near the door. i was near the gate when the explosion occurred. i saw myself falling to the ground and when i stood up, i told to the last one side of my abdomen and then they brought me to hospital is one of the wounded of the splinter group behind thursday forming has been active in eastern afghanistan on pakistan, and launched a savage campaign of bloodshed when it was founded in 2015. with more details on the group piers equals tunnels, the dreaded name of ice. it had all but vanished from international headlines. but now, amid the afghan power vacuum, the terror group has apparently struck again the . the double strike right outside cobble, airport, killed, dozens, american politicians had been warning, an attack was inevitable,
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but to no avail. every day we're on the ground is another day. we know that ice case seeking to target the airport attack both us and allied forces and innocent civilians. as we conduct these operations, we are sustaining the highest level of vigilance for an attack against the airport by isis k or another terrorist group. or commanders on the ground have taken every step they can to prepare for such an attack. isis k is an afghan off shoot of the same. the tory it says. lama state terror group. it's based in car a son. hence the letter k in the abbreviation with over 2000 g. hardy's committed to its terrible cause. the group targets have ghana stones most vulnerable the news
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the news if you think this may have been isis case law strike at the exiting foreign troops before a happy union with the taliban. well think again. the 2 groups are sworn enemies with the taliban just not radical enough in the eyes of isis k. the islamic emery strongly condemns the bombing targeting civilians at cocoa airports. the explosion took place in an area where us forces are responsible for security. the bottom line is isis k presents a massive security and reputational challenge for the taliban. given the talents
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attempt to look more civil, humane and legitimate, we could conceivably soon see. i mean, strange as it sounds, a taliban lead anti terrorist operation, or isis k, might become the perfect pretext for the us to negotiate at least some presence in talib, uncontrolled of garrison. we did hear about this group, for example, and i believe, april 2017. when trump and essentially authorized the pentagon to drop the mother of all bombs in eastern afghanistan, i believe in the non ga har province on ices k. but the roots of this group in its existence is poorly understood. and of course, when we hear these press briefings at the pentagon, there's very little context as group actually is a direct byproduct of the us invasion and occupation of afghanistan. it grew out of the pockets, donnie taliban, who were disgruntled talia bon members who wanted to carry out attacks on us
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targets inside pakistan and afghanistan. one of their most spectacular attacks was on camped camp chapman, u. s. military base where they used a c. i turn coat to attack us soldiers. there are several. busy other attacks on american assets and this all lead to a rise of terrorism inside pockets on directly related to the u. s. presence in afghanistan, 6 years ago, the pakistani taliban, which was widely suspected of being used by the african government, backed by the u. s. against pakistan turned into isis k central. it's the same thing as isis. so most viewers with no stomach state of iraq and syria, isis, which was this group that took over in 2014, 2015 big swats of iraq and syria. and by the way, who were able to do that because of massive amounts of military equipment that the us left behind, specifically in iraq, that's where they really got their weapons from. they went into iraq, took those home these weapons and went back into syria, isis k,
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which is the islamic state of correson, which essentially means eastern. they don't like the taliban, they're not friends with the taliban. they've been fighting the taliban. but more importantly, they've been fighting the u. s. and i bring up the point about the weapons because we just did the exact same thing and up dennis and left behind. unbelievable amounts of u. s. military equipment, massive amounts of weaponry and guns black hawk helicopters from these. we left it all there the same way that we did in iraq. so we could be creating a very similar problem of what we saw. 20142015 with the other isis. isis. a k is far from being in fact enabled to carry out such attacks. not the warning from the afghan national resistance front, which controls the punch volley. an area now seen as the center of the anti taliban opposition. its foreign relations had believes the terror threat in the country right now was even higher than 20 years ago. it could be isis cable. we think there are,
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there are other elements plan the attacks and that might have perpetrated such attacks against us soldiers and was a terrorist attack on the watch of the taliban. a group that says we are able to provide security. and now in one day we see numerous terrorist attacks happening on the watch, unfortunate the international terrorism and get us on as much stronger compared to 2001. this is something that the national resistance front of afghan on has been saying for the past year. we believe the international community should help our efforts to combat to national terrorism and afghans in 1900 on the, to the international community. abandoned that scanned them and we saw how afghanistan became a haven for terrorists groups. the same will happen in the international community, abandoned of canada into 2021. there's no pose threat towards everyone. no one is exempt. and terrorism is after every state,
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whether it's part of the western world or the eastern, managed to speak with the taliban spokespersons abbey, who lum jr. he told a range of issues including fighting drug trafficking and the threat posed by potential resistance forces in the country. the me which, sorry, really sorry about what happened, a couple add port for our part. we've taken measures to avoid these unwanted events . of course the responsibility lies with the americans. they tell people to gather the field. they say we will take you out. there was hustle and bustle. the americans opened fire at people. many were trampled in it, crushed many died by august the 31st. the americans must complete the evacuation of their employees. a mo, s for the pansies hair. it's not a big problem. there were only 2 people to who would like to continue the war. amory la applewood masoud,
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we've repeatedly appealed to magnitude to resolve the existing problems through negotiations. and there is no need for a military confrontation. we've not received an answer to our calls, and that's not a problem either. or i'm forced as a station nearby pantry here to keep the situation under control over mall and believe the current situation is entirely dependent on the afghans and no one else. we're not going to become a threat to the states bordering us using the g o strategic factor. we have good relations with tajikistan is pakistan, took men as tom pakistan. bron china. i can assure our neighbors that they should not fear any threats, harm or damage from our territory. the law has for drugs. we have a far reaching plan to prevent drug production. currently, about 3000000 afghans rejected to drugs. this is this side phenomenon for us. we'll try to nullify the cultivation and production of drugs in 2001 the cultivation and
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production of opiates would not read a k. did we work in this direction as well? in some provinces, the sewing and collection of drugs is still ongoing. and here we need cooperation not only with the countries of the region, but also with other interested state. 13 soldiers killed 18 injured. that's the grand total of attack for the american army. it came off to nearly 20 years. all of us military presence in afghanistan fest goal was to prevent terrorist attacks against americans and america. but with the taliban surging back to power some u. s. military veterans, a question whether all the sacrifices well was it widens recent claim. the operation in afghanistan was successful, found increase in new hollow to them. mission to degrade the terrors tread about kind in afghanistan and kilo summer been lot was a success. i believed that our presence in that gas dance should be focused on the
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reason we went, the 1st place to ensure afghans that would not be used as a base from which to attack our homeland. again. we did that. those who carried out this attack as well as anyone who wishes america harm. no this we will not forgive. we will not forget we will hunt you down to make you pay to buy it was already facing condemnation at home with calls for him to step down over the porch to occupation thursday's attack . because any intensified criticism. if any america has harmed or killed and not safely evacuated, or if any of this military equipment or weapons are used to harbor kill an american, the blood is directly on jo biden's hands. this will destroy what's, what's left now because the u. s. has been so unilateral and so clueless that mean for, for the president i states to be rebuked in the house of parliament. that's the 1st
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time it's ever happened. joe biden has blood on his hands. this horrific national security and humanitarian disaster is solely the result of job biden's weak and incompetent leadership. he's unfit to be commander in chief. it is in raging and joe biden is responsible. it's now clear beyond all doubt, but he's neither the capacity nor the will to lead. he must resign legal as jennifer to master and conservative commentator at martin told us that by didn't handling off the ass down. pullout has undermined american leadership in the fight against terrorism. the global community has lost trust and faith in joe biden, in his administration, a large truck now in the united states of america. despite the victory of the games and strength united states military job, i have managed to completely unravel and unwind that in a matter of months, putting our military in women's lives in danger. you know,
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biding can get up there and say all he wants to cameras will hunt you down and we'll get you. but he has lots of credibility, not only this rate and the, the euro, our enemies, but he's a lot of credibility from our allies as well. i don't know how somebody is able to do that in 9 months, have been administration, but i don't think anybody is surprised that it would be under the bite in ministration. we're watching the bible presidency deteriorate before our eyes. this president is not handling this well and everyone knows in america and the people in the rest of the world know it. so it's actually a very dangerous time. i hope the present is careful and slow and methodical. but right now what we're portraying is weakness. and uncertainty, he says at the end of his speech, and now i am allowed to ask the person, and course as i was instructed and right now, china is looking to taiwan and, and bad guys are looking at america and saying, let's take advantage of this. really weak, really embarrassing moment in american life. it's
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a big concern. what has foreign minister says to blame for the tail between the us and the taliban? falling apart? like he lives, not just on one side. so the europe now these really the lesson must be learned after iraq, libya, and now f canister attempts to impose outside values are explosive. and i hope that this conclusion will now be fixed in the minds of politicians who are considering further actions in foreign states. we maintained a dialogue with the taliban within the so called extended troika, it was a tendency to delay agreements. and as always, if nothing is achieved at the negotiating table, there is a great risk of presuming hostilities which is what ultimately happened. but i repeat, once again, we are ready to support the agreement that the americans concluded with the taliban and which unfortunately cannot be fulfilled. and probably not only because of the position of the taliban and in the way called the black multiple european needs, are readjusting their evacuation plans. the august,
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such for the deadline is now just 4 days away, off which no watch and force is all set to remain and cobble pizza. oliver has more now and how well peters are in a flint against time to get people out. natalia in plain there was a vacuum, a thing, people from the, the airport thing cobbler came on the fire last night. we've already heard from mario doggie, the italian prime minister saying the upcoming g 20 summit, which will take place here in the italian capital will have got to start as a big part of its focus elsewhere. what we've seen is the un refugee agency, specifically their representatives in germany and the folks in germany. i think they would continue their efforts on the ground after that 31st of august. the deadline here from angular merkel though, the german chancellor saying that the time was really running out to get people out of afghanistan right now. we know that the window of opportunity is closing
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10000 people could be brought to safety. i want to reaffirm that we will not forget those who can no longer be rescued by air lift. we will continue to try to get them out of the country, the foreign ministries, talking to the taliban about this. and we will also coordinate internationally on how we should proceed while france had said that they were ending their lift. however, in the last few moments, we understand that paris is looking at extending not 4 hours, perhaps even a few more days. up towards the 31st of august deadline. we had heard from the french president to manually ma call. and he said that there were 20 pulses of french nationals and africans that france has taken responsibility for and want to get out of the country waiting. i the asked or me a by to cobble airport. the french president acknowledge that the time that getting those people out was going to be difficult. and if there was a possibility that some wouldn't be able to be evacuated. we have known these risks
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since the start given the confusion that rains in control and the tensions at the airport. the next few hours will continue to be extremely risky in both couple and the airport for safety reasons and bus that will not remain enough. galveston, he will remain on bus at the meeting and we will continue to have an ambassador and a team and then embassy for afghan, a span as we are not recognizing a regime but a country. well, the u. k. minister of defense, ben wallace was doing the rounds on british media on friday morning and one interview i heard the said he only wished they had 7 more days in order to get people out of the country. they don't have time. in fact, mister wallace went on to suggest that the british presence on the ground enough gun is done, could be wrapped up in a matter of hours. not so much a matter of days. we will process those people that we have brought with us the size and people approximately inside the field now. and we will seek away to continue to find a few people in the crime where we can. but overall,
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the main processing has not closed and we have a matter of eyes. there are still people that are going to be in afghanistan that we couldn't get out. we've also had news coming out of ankara, the turkey having decided on a proposal that had been put to it by the taliban. now this was a proposal to try and help keep cobble airport after keep couple airport open after the 31st of august. the deadline, what the taliban was still insisting on as it took its troops outside of may so would have to get out of the country. but they've asked for technical help from ankara in order to keep the airport open for a little bit longer. president of turkey said he still hadn't decided what his country's answer to that request would be. and that's furnace in china city of tale on where a massive in foreigner, housing, golf to residential high rise authority say the building may house as many as 800 people so far. there's no information on casualties. according to reports,
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the fire began on the 19th full spreading rapidly over the buildings out, covering hundreds of firefighters. a current, me not all but a 10 for the hour, and i could buy from me for today. worry sir, she is taking over the tops. you can join him, but let's run a 3 me a military mission against him. we'll conclude on august 31st. i want to phone for who did he go to us? all the quote unquote, a young girl who will be on the roof for me and you got to southern company such as the cut,
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the cut over the whatever the month i pay that. i'm going to get a quote to ship. very good. this was the right weapon against the right hand corner, bombarded somebody to go out to reveal the, the signing of the us to all about agreement. and i laid the groundwork for the road ahead toward a lasting peace in afghan. stan and i know we still need that mcdonald and her americans love buying homes. ah, this would have funding middle part of how our political leadership and our country
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large understood the bargain. you get a whole and then you know, rebel. right. as the things you don't revolt, if you have a stake in the system, be really interesting to dial 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 this is boom bus, the one business show you can't afford to mit. i'm branch of or, and i'm rachel blevins in washington coming up. most of our critical infrastructure, phone, and operated is owned and operated by the private sector and the federal government can't meet this challenge alone. in the wake of a white house meeting to discuss the issues of cybersecurity leaders of some of the
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