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only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, a very critical time. time to sit down and talk the top stores for this hour here on t and a rocket strike in a residential area of cobble kills at least 6 people with many more injured pentagon officials are saying a us drone hit, a bomb laden truck carrying suicide bombers to the airport. meanwhile, the taliban deployed extra security at cobbled airport following horrific scenes earlier this week when a suicide bloss killed 170, including seen us marines. hundreds of people who are also left injured. and
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following 20 years of war and trillion dollars spent and ami veterans voice their anger and how the situation in the country has unruffled so fast. just even invading up dana fan was radio taylor. historically, no one has been ever able to conquer a dentist man, we're just going to continue to make the same big mistake. we're just being used for the will of the m i. c. and that's the news pm on sunday evening here in moscow, which means you're just in time for the weekly here. when are you to national top stories of the week and of today? an explosion has killed up to 6 people in the afghan capital, including 4 children that's according to local reports. of the u. s. military has confirmed that it carried out a drone strike resulting in secondary explosions, although they have not so far acknowledged any civilian casualties. according to pena on officials, the target was
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a bomb laden vehicle carrying several would be suicide bombers, who are planning to attack the airport. course. all this comes 3 days off for a deadly bombing at the airport. and just 2 days before the us put out deadlines and all the latest details from the afghan capital, his offseason would be it has now been confirmed that this was indeed a nash 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 drove strike itself. the strike targeted a residential neighborhood. there they identified a threat, a vehicle board, i d, provis explosive device, a suicide vehicle that potentially could have been 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 when a suicide bomber detonated is best at the north gate of capital airport,
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causing pandemonium. 13 american troops perish 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 taliban. the taliban has made that very clear. as the evacuation facts wraps up, the situation here is ted, it is teds 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 just a bit other in the program. i spoke with a local afghan, john listed below, outside of wadi. he thinks the ongoing security, military and kindness don represents a major challenge. well, it is the 1st time that the americans are carrying out a drawn strike inside the city of car will not very far from where the forces are
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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 carried out some of the most deadliest and brutal attacks in the city of cobbled 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 impala. 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 some quite tragically is one of economic hardships is one of uncertainty and fear prevailing. the 1st a suicide bombing at comp left or left 170 dead,
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and hundreds injured with many requiring hospital treatment. a number remained there in a critical condition. we spoke to one survivor who described his experience for us . i had applied for the visit, the for us invited us to come near the door. i was near the gate when the explosion occurred. i saw myself fall into the ground and when i stood up, i felt as dodd lost one side of my abdomen. and then they brought me to hospital one of the wounded. i said, kay, the atomic stayed splinter group behind both sides. bombings is active in eastern afghanistan on pakistan, was launched a suffrage campaign of bloodshed when it was 1st founded in 2015. the the
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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 har province on ices k. but the roots of this group and 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
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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 and afghan. a stand 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. essentially 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 the 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 what 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 correspond, which essentially means eastern. they don't like the taliban. they're not friends
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with the taliban. they've been fighting the taliban, but more importantly, they've been fighting with us 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 of what we saw. 20142015 with the other isis. the 13 troops killed in the bombing with the 1st deaths of us personnel, enough dentist on an 18 months, and one of the largest daily death tolls in a decade. 10 of the service went away from the camp. pendleton, military base in california, dozens of people have been laying flowers at the entrance to the site. the dead comprised of 9 marines and a sailor most of them in the early twenties. pendleton bass is home to the 1st marine division, the largest and oldest in the corps. those paying their respects, including relatives of the debt express,
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the sorrow and frustration of the tragic turn of events. let him down the leaders and that was through goods, through big mission at this point and tell him to send them in like that. you never wanna, 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 with, so i need it so unnecessary. you know, athena, army veterans voicing their anger at how the whole situation played out. or we heard from 2 ex servicemen. the real failure of this war and up can expand or whatever you want to call it. a conflict was explicitly pointed out in the dentist
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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 even pulling out of just even invading up dana. stan was a radio taylor. historically no one has ever able to conquer up, down. people are offset. busy with people i talk to our angry it's completely botched. there is no. ready political will, and there is still americans trapped 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 and early to thousands. i mean, we're just gonna continue to make the same big mistakes because we're not the ones that are pocketing the mit. and we're just being used for the will of the m i c.
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and that's, and that's what i say about that. as a crisis in afghanistan, unfolds wiki leaks is drawing attention to past revelations about america. longest war and a series of twitter post the organization republished classified us documents, which 1st it had leaked to the public a decade ago. back then which leaks found julian assange warned that the u. s. intervention would be an endless war. beneficial to only a fuel, a few i should say. a correspondent donald caught her now investigates this angle of 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 91000 leak reports that
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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 gaston, that is in many respects more grief than the official betrayal to one of the biggest leaks in u. s. military history and devastating portraits 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
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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 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 just make the same to the, to the person that is making a connection 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. it 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
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warlock say $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, appeared 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 tasked 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 serial 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, the 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 with stock returns from 2001 to 2021. for government contract 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 wash money out of a way out of your back into the head of
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a trend that in the all my goal in to have in the law says 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. and so we come here on the program on our t commit crimes behind bah's. we look at the growing problem of transgender convicts using fellow inmates in women's prisons. offer a very quick break. ah . join me every 1st day on the alex summon show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world. the politic sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then
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could i be with us for this sunday evening program life from moscow to give her an update? now on this developing situation in northern italy, you can see the picture was a huge fire has ripped through an apartment block in milan. look at these pictures . it's a tower block, around 18 stories high in the south of the city. you can see the entire structure as it was essentially been burned to a crisp, so far, no reports thankfully of any casualties. the blade is believed to have started on the 15th floor about 4 hours ago. the exact cause unknown, but the media is saying the building was covered in family cladding. the surrounding area has been fenced off. residents evacuated, at least 15 fi crews with trucks at the side and 70 families evacuated. we were to now to a topic we feel deserves a bit more attention than it's getting almost anywhere in the ladies of a series of reports. we're looking at the problem of transgender convicts abusing female inmates in prisons. a growing number of women said their lives have been
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turned into a living hell by mail, prisoners exploiting the system. in one of the most notorious cases in canada, women found themselves in danger after a predatory male offender who claimed to be identifying as a woman was sent to the prison. the was in on him have inspection the gym in the bathroom, making out with someone else and wanting to re son with me. free women needed the morning after bill. someone also had to take the bill, which she used under the assumption that it provides protection from 8th and habitat is b. he quoted me the laundry one day, telling me how beautiful i was. and he was trying to get with me. he was super
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weird. all the girls were uncomfortable, charlotte, in the house with him and everything. he tried to tell me she was in love with me. it was weird. he asked me to read for him and the girl and started making out with her and feeling her route. well, i was there he breck, how many girls his last week there. and he also bragged about taking the girls virginity in the library to give details as well as the air when it ran that. there were a few of us in there. it was in the living room due in count i couldn't eat after the bravest are inside women's jails rating. our women men using this loophole to access already vulnerable. women who have no voice, so platform to speak from our government is setting out women to be sexually
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assaulted by these may rate the correctional service. canada told us he provides a safe and secure environment in prisons and does not tolerate sexual corrosion and violence. well, my colleagues tusky taylor spoke to activist, had a mason, who shed more light on that story in canada and described her own experience of abuse in prison. oh, i want to get a status of your time inside. and specifically how problems inmates affected your experience. i was incarcerated with trans individuals in provincial, that was the 1st time i came across it. and then again, when i went to the federal and that was when they actually put them on compound with us instead of segregating them away from us. and they didn't have to have surgery, so that happened in 2017. and what was your reaction when you lot that that was
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trans inmates living in the compound with you? well, i was actually really freak doe in provincial because they brought me over to the indirect supervision range. and there is a sex offender there that was fully intact and he was there hiding out because of his crimes. that's what the guard told me anyway that he was trying to peek into my style when they're searching me. so that was my very 1st experience of that. but when i got to federal and i was told that there are men on compound with us, i was blown away. i didn't believe it. i couldn't believe that they were putting males in women's presence. i was actually harassed by one of them when i was inside, used to get me to try to walk back and forth in front of them so that they could check out my but lots of other comments as well. and then i was also in the halfway has with a male who had fully intact and it was like walking on egg shells. are you worried
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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 one, but do get denied transfer. there are utilizing the grievance system, which is a complaint system or a correctional services with canada. and when they're complaint, it's not resolved. they're bringing it to the human rights tribunal. did you ever inform the gods about how uncomfortable you 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,
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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 is 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 time sexual commons. 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 with physical altercation. they've never been punched in the face so hard.
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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 the really, really big power difference between them. candidates prison system allows men to choose to solve a sentence and a female prison. if they say they identify as women, they don't need to undergo any sod, true or human therapy. that what is enough fuel far to say this is in the name of the quality and to ensure the safety of transgender is the little change was pushed for by prime minister justin trudeau. himself, will you do your best to ensure that trans women put in prison or prison more appropriate to their gender identity is yes, i will ensure that i consider myself to be
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a fairly strong advocate for. for l g b t q 2 issues and fairly aware of all the different pressures and this wasn't one that i had ever thought of. so thank you. have a mason whom we just heard from, says the government has to rethink its approach to the whole issue. nobody wants to speak about it, they don't want to report on it. we're being told that we're lying, that it's not happening, not how big it is used at retrans. there's literally no discussion about it. there is no discussion before any of the policies that were implemented. and i feel like there are solution to this. they have the room in men's institutions that have wings and dorms, and they can make l g b, t q wings, better tailored to their unique needs over the united states. similar concerns have been raised. for example, by the case of janai at one row, a transgender woman in annoy who was transferred from a mens prison to
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a women's facility that was off the she alleged mail and mate 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 that gender identity. the law was adopted in january by may, over 260 transfer requests had been made and not left. some female convicts, very worried. i will not be a victim anymore. i haven't do the 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
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a woman doesn't mean the penis doesn't work. we discuss california law with alexa horon, a co founder partners for ethical, cat, and founder of the agenda mapping project. she says the well being of women prisoners is simply of no interest to legislators. senate bill 132 is, is sentencing women who have committed whatever crime to the punishment of sexual violence at the hands of meals. and i think that in terms of the pyramids of nice, gavin newsome and scott winner and every other enabler who had the largest to happen, views, the feelings of the physical safety of incarcerated women at the bottom of that pyramid of needs. when we of course understand it has to be a top ortiz keeping a close eye on similar developments in the us and elsewhere. the walt will have
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more features on the issues raised to com. ah, the next round of our investigation as a trans gender crime and female presence as tomorrow on monday we'll be assessing some cases in the u. s. state of california, but also in the u. k. as well for the meantime, your weekly program with the top highlights of the past 7 days on international news, continues in about half an the look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings, except when such orders that conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. the point obviously is to great truck rather than fear take on various jobs
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