me ah, will i the the telescope headlines are now t at a rocket strike in a residential area of cobbled kills at least 6 people with many more were injured. pentagon officials are saying a us drone strike hit a bomb, laid on a truck carrying suicide bombers to the airport. meanwhile, the taliban deployed extra security. cobble that board following her risk scenes earlier this week when a suicide type famed at least a 170 lives,

including 13 us marines. hundreds of other people also left injured. following 20 years of war and trillions of dollars spent, ami veterans voice their anger at how the situation in the country has unruffled so quickly. just given, invading up dennis fan was already a failure. historically, no one has been a never able to conquer up data. we're just gonna continue to make the same big mistake and we're just being used for that. ah, but what are we going to be in your world news headlines here on our t international all week long. it's been a lot of news out of afghanistan. welcome to the weekly program here for the sunday evening. and explosion has killed up to 6 people in the afghan capital, including 4 children. this is all according to local reports. of the us military

has confirmed that a carried out a drone strike resulting in secondary explosions. although they have not so far acknowledged any civilian casualties. according to pentagon officials, the target was a bomb laden vehicle carrying several suicide bombers, who are planning to attack cobble lab board. of course this comes just 3 days, offer a deli bombing there at the hub and just 2 days before the us pull out deadline. so with all the very latest the ask on capitol here is our correspondent, but i guess be it has now been confirmed that this was indeed an air strike. it happened just in the valley, just beyond the valley between the 2 hills behind me. that is where the airport of gobble is, the dro strike itself. the strike targeted a residential neighborhood. there. they identified a threats, a vehicle board, i g, provis explosive device suicide vehicle that potentially could have been that driven towards the airport and designated that it has been very tense here in

capital since that terror attack at the airport 2 days ago with a suicide bomber detonated as best at the north gate of capital, airport, causing pandemonium. 30 the american troops parish. the dozens of taliban sizes, and more than a 100 women, children, civilians all desperate to get inside. before the evacuation wraps up on the 31st of august, that is the deadline for american troops the allies to get out of of got to start unless they want to risk confrontation with the tyler by the taliban is made that very clear. as the evacuation facts wraps up, the situation here is ted ted's because of the security threat that isis k, which claimed responsibility for the last bombing, may try to attack the airport again. that is the biggest fear which is a short time ago here on the program on r t i spoke with our local last guy,

john listed below, outside of what he thinks are the ongoing security meltdown. and i've got his don presents a major challenge. well, it is the 1st time that the americans are carrying out a broad stripe inside the city of caldwell, not very far from where the forces are stationed in it alone tells you what is the end result after 20 years of investment in blood pressure. this is what failure exactly looks like. well, it has some of the most deadliest and brutal attacks in the city of cobbler. but this time it is happening under the rule of the taliban. we have to remember the air strikes today and cobble in the previous one in the city of july, inside the city are taking place when the taliban are in follow. so one has to really wonder if it is a new chapter of cooperation between the american taliban on this side. the road

ahead for quite tragically as one of the hardships is one of uncertainty and fear prevailing. first days, suicide bombings, cobble airport left a 170 dead, and hundreds injured with many meeting hospital treatment. of course, a number of them remained in a critical condition. we spoke to one survivor who described his experience i had applied for the visit, the foreigners 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 the dog lost one side of my abdomen, and then they brought me to hospital in one of the wounded places k, the sonic stayed a splinter group behind. first, a bombing says active in eastern afghanistan and pakistan and launched a savage campaign of bloodshed when it was 1st founded in 2015. the

the 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 none go har province on isis 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. this 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 taliban members who wanted to carry out attacks on us targets inside pakistan and afghanistan. one of their most spectacular attacks was on camp camp chapman, u. s. military base where they used a c. i turn coat to attack us soldiers. there are several other attacks on american assets. and this all led to a rise of terrorism inside pocket 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 slumming state of iraq and syria, right. isis, which was this group that took over in 2014, 2015 big swath of iraq. and. and by the way, who were able to do that because of massive about the military equipment that the

us left behind, the civically interact, 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, which is the islamic state of corresponds 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 west and i bring up the point about the weapons because we just did the exact same thing enough dennis and left behind. unbelievable amounts of us 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. what we saw 20142015 with the other isis. the 13 troops killed and thursdays bombing with a 1st deaths of us personnel. and i've gone on and 18 months, and one of the largest daily death tolls in a decade attended the service men were from the camp. pendleton, military base in california. dozens of people have been laying flowers at the entrance to the base of the dead, comprised of 9 marines under salem,

most of them in the early twenties, the pendleton bases holmes, the 1st marine division, the largest and oldest in the corps, and those paying their respects including relatives of the dead, expressed sorrow and frustration of contraband him and let him down the leaders and as she could feel this stupid stupid mission at this point and tell him to send them in like that you never want to, you never want to see something like that happen. and so that's, that's, that's our break and there's not enough words to express, you know, how i feel right now. but i just, you know, i feel that somebody has led on there and then it's just, so i need it so unnecessary. you know, thine ami veterans voicing their anger at how the whole situation is played out and

gone on. have you heard from 2 ex servicemen the real failure of this war and janet stan, or whatever you want to call that a conflict was explicitly pointed out in the dentist and papers where a lot of generals basically spoke about the fact that there was no mention they had no mission, they didn't know what they were doing there, and they didn't know what they were going to do in the future anyway. so yes, of course i think, i think not pulling out of just even invading up dana. stan was a radio taylor historically no one has ever able to conquer up dana. stan, people are all set. busy with people i talk to our a re it's completely budged. there is no. ready political will, and there are still americans trap in afghanistan and still haven't been able to get to go. and as far as lessons learned from, i mean other previous words. i mean, if we haven't learned from vietnam, if we didn't learn from, you know,

from iraq in their early 2 thousands. i mean, we're just going to continue to make the same big mistakes because they were not the ones that are pocketing the mit and were just being used for the will of the mit. and that's and that's what i'd say about that. well, as the whole crisis continues to unfold and ask honest on wiki leaks is drawing attention to past revelations about america's longest war in a series of twitter post to the organization, republish classified us documents, which at 1st leak to the public a decade ago. like then we're helix found the julian us on warned that the us intervention would be an endless war. beneficial to only a few. i don't know, quarter now picks 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 more than 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 is in many respects more green than the official betrayal of one of the biggest leagues 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 sides,

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. julie, this is engaged in 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 in a case by case level in the death of more than 20000 people in afghanistan and more than 108000 people in iraq. and so when you want to distract from this, you disconnect the same accusation to the, to the person that is making accusation against you. what do you, 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 set of 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 profits for giants of the military. industrial complex woodstock returns from 2001 to 20. $21.00 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 money making scheme of endless war to

wash money out of a way to base your back into the hand of a truck. that is 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. no, i still up and coming here on the weekly on, are you international committing crimes behind bars? we look at the growing problem of transgender convicts abusing fellow inmates and women's prisons. and more of the weekly, after the break. i

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the me ah ah, it is good. have you with us for the weekly here, are naughty international, we now return to top it we feel deserves more attention that has getting elsewhere . and the latest of a series of reports, we're looking at the problem of transgender convicts abusing female inmates in prison. a grubbing number of women say that lives have been turned into a living hell by male prisoners exploiting the system. and one of the most notorious cases in canada, women found themselves in danger after a predatory male offender who claimed he identified as a woman was sent to the prison. the

was in an aim, have inspecting the dream in the buffering, making out with someone else and wanting to re some with me for women really 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 be going to mean the laundry room one day, telling me how beautiful i was. and he was trying to get his name. it was super weird. all the girls were uncomfortable, shalon and the house with him and everything. he tried to tell me she was in love with me. it was weird. he asked me to leave for him and the girl and started making out with her and feeling her out. well, i was there he breck, how many girls his last year. and he also bragged about taking the girls virginity

in the library to give details as well as the air limit when they're worth your while speaking, it was in the living room. do you encounter? i couldn't eat after that. braces are inside women's jails rating. our women men are using this loophole to access already vulnerable women who have no voice, so platform to speak from our government, setting out women to be sexually assaulted by these may read the correctional service. canada told us it provides a safe and secure environment in prisons and does not tolerate sexual coercion and violence. lolia my colleagues, jessica taylor, i spoke to active. it's heather mason, who shed more light on that story in canada and describe her own experience of abuse in prison. oh, with me now wants to

get a status of your time inside, and specifically, how problems inmates affected your experience. i was incarcerated with trans individuals. and provincial that was the 1st time it came across. 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? well, i was actually really freaked in provincial because they brought me over to the indirect supervision range. and there is a sex offender there that was fully intact and he was there hiding out because of his crimes. that's what the guard told me. anyway, he was trying to peek into my style when they're searching me. so that was my very

1st experience of that, but when i got to federal and i was told that there are men on compound with us, i was blown away. i didn't believe it. i couldn't believe that they were putting males in women's presence. i was actually harassed by one of them when i was inside, used to get me to try to walk back and forth in front of them so that they could check out my but lots of other comments as well. and then i was also in the halfway with a male who had fully intact and it was like walking on egg shells. are you worried that there are people who are going to use the system in order to end up in a female prison and then come out and decide that he's a man again? well, yeah, there's nothing to prevent them if they claim transgender identity, you can't say that they're not transgender because you're discriminating against their identity or their expression, and even the ones,

but do get denied transfer. they're utilizing the grievance system, which is a complaint system for correctional services at canada. and when they're complain, it's not resolved. they're bringing it to the human rights tribunal. did you ever inform the gods about how uncomfortable you thought about incident you described of sexual assault? and if so, how did they react? so as women, we do not utilize the avenues that are set up 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 a lot of them are like constitution, drug addiction and abuse 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 breasts or their touch, actual comments. a few of them have been sexually assaulted. so i speak to a lot of women that have been incarcerated, and the stories are very similar, same a physical altercation. they've never been punched in the face so hard. they're starting to carry weapons around, which is not a normal thing for women that are incarcerated in canada. they're putting soup cans and socks because they know that they're fighting males and not women. and there's been really, really big power difference between them. candidates prison system allows men to choose to solve a sentence in a female prison. if they say they identify as women,

they told me to undergo any sod, true or human therapy. that what is enough feel for to say this is in the name of the quality and to ensure the safety of transgender is the law change was pushed for by prime minister justin trudeau. himself, will you do your best to ensure that trans women are put in prison or prison, more appropriate to their gender identity or is yes, i will ensure that i consider myself to be a fairly strong advocate for. for l g b t q 2 issues and, and fairly aware of all the different pressures and this wasn't one that i had ever thought of. so thank you. had the mason, whom we just heard from, says the government has to rethink its approach to the whole issue. nobody wants to speak about it. they don't want to report on it. we're being told that we're lying, that it's not happening that have begun to use that returns 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, have wings and dorms, and they can make l g b, t q wings, better tailored their unique needs over in the united states. similar concerns have been raised. for example, by the case of tonight at one row, a transgender woman in enjoy who was transferred from a mens prison to a women's facility that was off to she alleged mail inmates had sexually harassed her. but in her new prison, monro herself was accused of raping a female inmate at the thought of the california past its own controversial law. now it allows trans inmates to be transferred to facilities. that line with the gender identity below adopted in january by may,

over 260 transfer requests had been made. and that 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 the penis doesn't work. we discuss california law with alex, a har on a co founder of partners for ethical and founder of the agenda mapping project. she says the well being of women prisoners, it's simply of no interest to legislators. senate bill 132 is is, is it spend something 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, i got a new stem and got 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's nice when we of course understand it has to be at the top. he's keeping a close eye on similar developments in the us and for the world, and we'll have more features on the issues raised to cost me . so the next round of our investigation into trans agenda crime and female prisons as tomorrow. on monday, we'll be looking into cases in the u. s. state of california, but also in the u. k. right now to developing a situation in northern italy. we're

a massive fire sweeping through an apartment block in milan. it's an 18 story tower block in the south of the city. you can see right here, the entire structure has been burning. so far there have been no reports of casualties. the blaze is believed to have started on one of the upper floors about 3 hours ago with the exact cause, yet is unknown. the surrounding area has been fenced off. all residents evacuated. there have been at least 15 fire trucks with crews battling the fire. we understand about 70 families and all have been evacuated. more update on that online at r t dot com for the meantime. your weekly program, the sunday evening edition returns in hoffman. ah. driven by jan shaped bank in person. those with me

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